Years, that 500 a year to establish that costing 1500. If you break that down into per visit, if youre making 52 visits in a year, it comes out to 10 per visit and were cog g a lot of that. The hesitation on our part, we dont want to plant a tree if we dont have a program in place to water it. And currently our watering staff is maxed out as many trees as we can water as they take trees off the list as theres room to add more trees. As we talked about, we have a goal from the urban forest plan to plant 50,000 new trees and you can imagine what that will cost if we have to plant and water those. So here is a graphic of what were doing. Internally, we have our staff watering 1,182 trees per week. And annually, its about 60,000 visits and then a contractor who is doing another 1800 trees a week for a combined total of 155,000 tree watering visits per year. So in terms of what we do in our bureau of watering, its a huge chunk of our activist. Tuft. Activity. Can i ask a question. How is it
Tree or limb failures. So our strategies with these resources in tackling those challenges, our overall goal, were trying to move toward is be able to sustain a 15year tree management cycle. We want to do tree management maintenance on each parked tree in maintained open space on a 15year schedule. And we are attempting to do that through, basically, three strategy approaches here and we do have our daytoday tree maintenance. Our tree crews who do the daytoday tree maintenance and our reactive resource to get out and take care of things in realtime, as tree issues occur. And we do tree assessments each year. We use a thirdparty contractor. Hortscience is our city provider and contractor. We do usually six tree assessments on six we do six assessments on six Park Properties per year and from those assessments, we take the recommendations and they then compromise the work plan for either tree crews or contract work to accomplish those maintenance actions on our park trees. And as nichola
Of the rugby world cup, at the weather with stav danaos. With a stunning win against defending champions new zealand in yokohama. Celebrations across the country as they beat the all blacks in the tournament much of scotland, and northern for the first time. And the dup leader ireland saw plenty of sunshine Arlene Foster vows to keep opposing today. Some showers, in england and wales it was wet in places. Thanks to this weather front, pushing southwards this evening into the first part of the night. Clearing into the near continent, taking strong winds. It is dry and clear, a much colder night to come. Blustery in northern scotland, with wintry and so over the hills. A chilly end to the night, temperatures close to freezing. Dont forget the clocks go back on our tonight. An extra hour in bed on sunday morning. What a difference a day makes lovely, cool and bright and sunny in england and wales. A big difference. Low pressure in the north east. Blustery in scotland and showers wintry ov
Found on an Industrial Estate in essex. Investigators say mechanical and design problems caused last years lion air plane crash in indonesia, which killed 189 people. England are preparing for one of their biggest rugby games in over a decade tomorrow, as the side take on new zealand in the world cup semifinal. Coming up later this hour climbing uluru for the last time. Tourists queue to make the ascent before a ban comes into effect. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Borisjohnson will spend the next three days trying to persuade mps to back his plans for a general election on the 12th of december. Meanwhile, eu ambassadors will meet this morning to discuss how much longer they should give the uk to achieve brexit, but theyre expected to delay making a final decision until they know if the election is going ahead. Meanwhile, the chancellor sajid javid has said this morning that the government now has to accept the uk wont be able to leave by the 31st october. Well shortly
The brexit deadline of october 31st would not be met. The eu will decide next week how long a delay should be, as ambassadors agree in principle to an extension. Labour has to decide whether to vote for a december election. Jeremy corbyn says his conditions have to be met. Providing the Prime Minister comes to parliament on monday and makes it absolutely clear he is going to make sure that there is no crash out, because his deal includes the possibility of a no deal exit. Well bring you all the latest from westminster and brussels. The other main stories this lunchtime. Two more people are arrested in the investigation into the 39 people found dead in a lorry in essex. Investigators blame design flaws and human errorfor the lion air crash last year off the indonesian coast, in which 189 people died. Huge crowds scramble up australias uluru for the final time, before a ban on climbing the sacred rock. And excitement mounts for england and wales ahead of their semifinal matches at the Ru