Kamins Construction Inc Pacific Ave to Interurban Trail Bicycle Safety

I 1 1. Non-Irrigated Plant Material 2 Western Washington (West of the Cascade Mountain Crest) — October 3 1 to March 1. 4 Eastern Washington (East of the Cascade Mountain Crest) — October 5 1 to November 15. 6 7 2. Irrigated Plant Material I 8 9 In irrigated areas, plant material shall not be installed until the irrigation 10 system is fully operational and accepted by the Engineer. Trees and shrubs 11 may be planted in irrigated areas during the non-irrigated planting window 12 before the irrigation system is functional with the written concurrence of the 13 Engineer only if the irrigation system is guaranteed to be operational prior to 14 the end of the non-irrigated planting window. I 15 16 8-02.3(8)B Plant Installation 17 The Contractor shall handle plant material in the following manner: I 18 19 1. Root systems shall be kept covered and damp at all times. Plant 20 material shall be kept in containers until the time of planting. 21 I 22 2. Roots shall not be bunched, curled, twisted, or unreasonably bent when 23 placed in the planting hole. Bare root plant material shall be dormant at 24 the time of harvesting and planting. The root systems of ail bare root I 25 plant material shall be dipped in a slurry immediately prior to planting. 26 27 3. Plant material supplied in wrapped balls shall not be removed from the I 28 wrapping until the time of planting at the planting location. The root 29 system of balled plant material shall be moist at the time of planting. 30 Root balls shall be loosened prior to planting.All burlap, baskets, string, 31 wire and other such materials shall be removed from the hole when I32 planting balled plants. 33 34 4. Plant cutting material shall be dormant at the time of cutting and I 35 planting. All cuttings shall be installed immediately if buds begin to 36 swell. 37 I 38 5. Plants shall be placed with the crown at the finished grade. In their final 39 position, plants shall have their top true root (not adventitious root) no 40 more than 1 inch below the soil surface, no matter where that root was 41 located in the original root ball or container. The backfill material, I42 including container and root ball soil, shall be thoroughly watered on the 43 same day that planting occurs regardless of season. 44 I 45 When installing plants, the Contractor shall dig planting holes three times the 46 diameter of the container or root ball size.Any glazed surface of the planting hole 47 shall be roughened prior to planting. I 48 49 8-02.3(8)C Pruning, Staking, Guying, and Wrapping 50 Plants shall be pruned at the time of planting, only to remove minor broken or 51 damaged twigs, branches or roots. Pruning shall be performed with a sharp tool 52 and shall be done in such a manner as to retain or to encourage natural growth ' CITY OF EVERETT AMENDMENTS PACIFIC AVENUE TO INTERURBAN TRAIL BICYCLE SAFETY PROJECT 8112/2019 STATE FUND#I-ILP PBI7(014); COE#PW3688 Page AM-93