| Salt
Lake City, Forestry Division maintains public trees which are
located on the park strip. The park strip is the property
between the sidewalk and the street. Forestry is currently
responding to calls regarding public trees. If you have woody waste
debris from trees or shrubs growing on your property (anywhere not on
the park strip), you are responsible to dispose of the limbs. |
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Snowstorm sometimes
cause breakage of trees on public and private property
throughout the city and valley. Some
of the most vulnerable species included plums, maples and littleleaf
lindens.
Many of the broken trees are excellent candidates for
restorative pruning. Arborist
crews will be providing this service in the weeks and months ahead for
trees located on the park strip
within
Salt Lake City limits.
If there is a public
property tree on the park strip in your neighborhood you would
like inspected for service or condition, please call the forestry
division at 972-7818. Service
requests may also be made here.
Forestry
has been inundated with calls regarding private trees. These calls are
taking time away from the needs of trees on public property. Foresters
are trained specialists on trees and are able to differentiate easily
between species. Please
understand trees not growing on the park strip are the owners
responsibility. Forestry will not remove debris from private trees.
If they respond to a call regarding which turns out to be a private
tree, they will leave it with a notice to owner to remove pile within
one week. |
| Trees on Private
Property
Resident Responsibility
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Any debris from trees on
your property (from the sidewalk to the home and backyard), you are
responsible to dispose of We appreciate your compliance of City
and County regulations.
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| How to Dispose
of Debris
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| We
suggest taking woody waste to the Salt Lake
Valley Landfill where it will be recycled into compost.
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If you do not have the
ability to haul the debris to the landfill we suggest the following:
- Place debris in your garbage can.
Please make sure the garbage can lid shuts. If the pile is
larger than the can, place small amounts in each week until the
pile is gone. Do not store the pile on the park strip or the
road.
- Contact a private business
and pay to have it removed. Businesses can be found in the
Yellow Pages phonebook under "Garbage & Rubbish
collection" or "Tree Service".
- Store the debris properly in your
yard until your annual Neighborhood
Cleanup date.
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| County and City Health Regulations
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| Salt Lake City follows County
Regulation General Sanitation 7.0.52 which describes, waste
not removed by government entity is the responsibility of the owner or
occupant.
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In addition to the web
site, taking phone calls, and media information, Salt Lake City is
trying to inform people of the regulations by delivering a non
compliance flyer
to residence in violation. However, this is not required by law
and may be enforced without warning.
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| Forestry Main Page |
| Streets
Main Page |
| Neighborhood
Cleanup Program- April thru October (1 week) |
| Leaf
Bag Program- October thru November |
