Reminder: Tree care work to affect vehicle and pedestrian traffic along Maple Park Drive week of Jan. 30

During the week of Jan. 30 to Feb. 3, traffic will be affected along Maple Park Drive between Capitol Way and Jefferson Street. Tree maintenance work may impact auto and pedestrian traffic, including the entrance to the Maple Park Drive entrance to the Plaza Garage where visitor parking is available for state employees who do not work on the Capitol Campus.

Cones, barricades, and flaggers will guide vehicles and pedestrians through the area as needed.

The Department of Enterprise Services has contracted with Arbor Care Tree Specialists to prune 50 trees along Maple Park Drive to improve tree health, ensure public safety and provide appropriate vehicle clearance. The work will be conducted from 8 a.m. to dusk, Monday through Friday. Chain saws and a chipper machine will bring noise impacts.

Dead wood will be removed to eliminate safety hazards, and trees will be selectively pruned to increase illumination from street lights, to provide vehicle clearance, and to clear branches affecting the Employment Security Building.

In addition to pruning work, two dying maple trees at the west end of Maple Park Drive will be removed and later replaced with two new sugar maple trees.

A stump grinder will prepare the area for planting the new trees.

East Plaza Water Garden work

Also during the week of Jan. 30, there will be noise impacts when Arbor Care Tree Specialists grinds three stumps near the Water Garden in the north plaza of the Employment Security Building. These stumps are being removed so that three new trees can be planted to replace three failing ash trees recently removed from the Water Garden area.

Sustainable landscaping practices

Wood chips will be stockpiled near the parking lot west of the Employment Security Building as part of Enterprise Services’ sustainable practice of reusing pruning by-products on campus landscape beds to suppress weeds and retain soil moisture.

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