In this July 2020, file photo, a dead tree along Brookdale Avenue in Cornwall, Ont. is marked with red paint signalling its future replacement. The city says it had to replace over 70 trees after a contractor failed to honour a warranty. (Newswatch Group/Bill Kingston, File)
CORNWALL – Cornwall’s infrastructure manager says the city had to spend over $20,000 on Brookdale Avenue trees that died because a contractor didn’t honour a warranty.
Roughly 70 trees along the edges of Brookdale Avenue from Water Street to the Rotary Traffic Circle died in the winter of 2018-2019.
Michael Fawthrop said in July 2019 that those trees would be replaced under warranty that fall but it wouldn’t be until July 2020 when Acting Infrastructure General Manager Bill de Wit told city council that it would be coming out of the city’s pocket because the warranty expired.