First things first...thankyou Eric for taking the trouble of going down there and taking the pics, I wish I had been there, you have so I give due deffernce to your hands on knowledge.......I wold also ask those new to this thread to please read back through the previous posts to see what each of us has been saying in relation to these trees esp the pics Eric put up taken well before any trees dropped and the MS Paint works i placed over the top....fungal decay has been at these trees.
In the recent pics let me point out some things that cry out to me but I could be mistaken (as ever ofcourse i don't believe so!)
There are numerous roots on the failure side that have not torn in the way healthy roots do, there are no shreds and long strips, there are no residual roots remaining pulled through the sealed footpath surface...there should be if the roots are not compromised by fungal parasites.
I have circled the suspect roots in question below...also you'll be able to see a root that has torn in a manner more expected of live tissue
Heres the side view
Can't see what I'm getting at? Well look at this one with the view of the lifted bitumen...the roots under the road are still patially attached to the point that they are lifting both the kerbing and the bitumen (Blue area) but there are no such root along the footpath (Red lines) and there is in fact from the pic no lifting of the footpath area at all, not even any cracking (that I can see) and that is what you'd expect (Yellow area)
So what do i think from hot and humid (could it get any more humid without raining????
) NQ?
What I have said from the beginnin...... these trees were (are??) iconic to this area yet they have not been properly managed, they were not protected years ago (which was par for the course back then) when the roads aroundd the park were upgraded, they were not proteected when the footpaths were put in nor when the lights were put in, they have not been looked after..mulched root zones????since those changes, they have been neglected, and worse they have been damaged over the years, "pruning" impact injuries root injuries(kerb replacements, footpath leveling)
I do understand the extrodinary array of demands placed on a body like BCC, I really do but it is not beyond the scope of any of us no matter what institution we work in to ensure that valuable assets like these trees are properly maintained....it does not cost massive amounts of money to inspect assess and report on the health of trees, it does not cost enormous amounts of money to improve the health of trees like these....it does require a strong commitment from not just council but also from people like us to work towards achieving the desired outcomes.
I can assure all reading this that the final costs for all the removals and remedial works to roads footpaths etc will be many times the most exorbitant fee that could have been asked for assessments, reporting and PHC. I know where I would have preferred the money spent.
