The Department of Environment of the City of Murcia, who heads Adela Martinez-Cache, will eliminate the banana Avenida del Progreso, since reports of municipal technicians Acknowledge the damage that is causing the tree, and could cause a future, people living nearby.
Due to the complexity will mean the elimination tree location, as well as the inconvenience it might cause to the environment and the neighboring district of Progress in general, the Department of Environment conduct an information campaign which will knowledge on the duration and the work to be performed.
The plane tree roots have caused the rupture of the canal which passes between the tree and the building, which runs parallel to the road of Avenida del Progreso.
According to reports by the municipal officers of the Environment, the tastings on the sidewalk at the base of the tree, they reveal to the plane tree roots have lifted and deformed the sidewalk;
and large tree root passes over the canal and heads adjacent building is suffering water leaks in the garage.
The reports also revealed that while carrying out the arrangement of the ditch, the damage in the future would become produce, since the root canal has embraced them and return to the ditch with damage growth roots.
Among the solutions are discussed in the reports of the municipal officers to become not break the ditch is to cut the roots, but they are very thick and is that support for the tree, which would cause, with deletion, the London plane tilt accentuate currently presents.
This tilt is the result of finding sun has found the tree next to the building.
The report states, finally, that, in addition to causing structural damage to the building, removing roots also result in the possible future tree fall, it would be necessary to remove the banana in its entirety.
The Department of Environment conducted an information campaign to inform, in advance, neighbors and the date the work to be carried out in the time that occurs tree removal, as it will cut Avenida del Progreso.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia