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| Wednesday, 03 September 2008 | |
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Residents in Walkinstown have expressed their concern for local pedestrians after falling trees severed electricity power lines and caused them to fall onto a public pavement. On Saturday, August 23, damaged trees on Bunting Road in Walkinstown fell onto live overhead power lines which subsequently lay on the pavement for about 40 minutes. Residents on the road claimed trees that had been damaged by bad weather six weeks previously were responsible for breaking the cable. According to one resident it was a miracle that no one was injured or killed by the potentially lethal power line. Donal Hunt, who lives on Bunting Road in Walkinstown, explained the series of events that led to the fallen power line. “About six to eight weeks ago there was a big storm and a bunch of trees got damaged,” he said. “The council came along a couple days later and cleaned up all the branches that had fallen off the trees. “Later the weather was bad again and another branch fell off the trees, which in turn brought down the power line. “When I talked to the neighbours on Saturday (August 23) one of them said they had written to the council four weeks ago telling them the trees needed to be cut. At least two other neighbours went down to the council offices in Crumlin Village on Friday (August 22) and reported the damage done to the trees. “The original storm damage had been done before the residents sent the letter to the council. The residents I spoke to said they got a response from the council, saying they were not going to do anything about the power lines due to budgetary restrictions.” Mr Hunt claimed one resident informed the council in writing about the damage done to the trees nearly two months previously and asked that they be maintained. In response to the request, Sean Redmond, executive parks superintendent for the council said: “Our own staff can prune smaller trees but larger specimens require the contracting out of specialist tree surgeons to undertake the work on behalf of Dublin City Council.” He added: “This work will depend on the allocated budget for major pruning works.” A spokeswoman for the council further explained, “Over the last 15 months three trees were taken down on Bunting Road. The road itself is under constant surveillance. “We can’t really tell whether trees are going to bring down power lines or not and we have thousands of trees around the city, so it is very hard to get out to every request,” she said. “We can only really monitor and carry out surveillance on them.” |
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