Calgary continues Snowtember cleanup
Posted Mar 2, 2016 7:34 am.
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It’s pushing 18 months since the unprecedented Calgary Snowtember storm in 2014, which saw 311 receive more than 10,000 tree-related emergencies.
The city is still trying to catch up on parts of the replanting and inventory program and councillors will receive an update at a committee meeting Wednesday.
After the storm, council approved $35.5-million to address the damage over three years. $11.8-million of that will be spent this year.
The funding is used to bolster pruning and replanting programs in parks and along roadways, and help residents replant and repair their own trees.
Part of the money is for inventorying which was delayed last year due to technology limitations and available resources.
Over the 2015 season, Calgary Parks Urban Forestry performed restorative pruning of 59,000 trees and assessing 69,000 trees.
They also planted over 7,400 trees, which is an increase of nearly 1,700 trees compared to 2014.
This year the plan is to assess and prune 80,000 trees and plant another 9,000.
Last July, Mayor Naheed Nenshi blasted the NDP government for rejecting the city’s application for $27-million in financial aid through the provincial disaster relief program.
The province said the request did not meet the program’s requirements.
