ReArch Company Tree Root-Watering Systems

Rick Villamil November 2014

 

   Most projects we begin are designed and engineered from the ground-up.  But when a new client asks us to help them save valuable trees in the nearby parking area, we start at the tree top and work down.

   The ReArch Company is a construction and property management group in South Burlington, VT.  Parking lots surrounding a nearby facility formerly occupied by Digital, a large communications and computer programming company are now used by many different smaller companies for their business fleets and for staff parking vehicles.  ReArch proposed using water drawn from a nearby storm-water run-off pond to re-invigorate one of their adjacent properties landscaping.   

 The expansive parking lots have raised green strips, with large 8" caliper Ash trees on the summit of a 3' high mound.  The persistent wind and southern exposure witha large amount of radiant heat from the paved surfaces have really stressed the trees over their lifetime, some have succumbed with many showing evidence of life threatening diseases.

  A small pumping and filtration station was installed by the pond to provide water for the latest method of delivering water to tree roots.  The Rain Bird root-watering-system will provide a tree with the necessary volume of water at the deeper root structures that these trees have developed over 4 decades of growth.