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City crews will remove the 85-foot bigleaf maple tree near the corner of the two streets beginning Tuesday morning and continuing through Wednesday.
The city of Eugene will close a lane on Washington Street and one block of West Broadway over the next two days to remove a tree that damaged a neighborhood home during a December windstorm.
Crews from the city’s Parks and Open Space Urban Forestry team will remove the 85-foot bigleaf maple tree near the corner of Washington Street and West Broadway starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 28, through Wednesday, April 29, according to a Monday news release.
The city will close one of two one-way northbound traffic lanes on Washington Street from West Broadway Alley to West Broadway to make way for the work. One block of West Broadway, from Washington to Lawrence streets, will also be closed both days to everyone except adjacent property owners.
“Drivers may experience intermittent delays throughout Tuesday while the largest sections of the tree come down, and both travel lanes are temporarily blocked,” the release states.
One limb of the maple tree, which has branches spanning 55 feet, snapped and fell onto a nearby house during an overnight December storm with 45-mph winds, appearing to damage its roof and fence.
According to the city’s Monday news release, the city-owned tree “experienced a branch failure” during high winds last winter, which exposed “additional decay.” The city is removing the tree to “eliminate any remaining risk,” the release states.
A general contractor who inspected the damaged house and tree after the storm in December had said the tree trunk appeared to have a “pocket of rot” and should have been removed “a while ago.”
The city is responsible for managing over 76,000 trees located in the public right of way — the strip between the sidewalk and street — and will remove street trees that are “dead, dying or hazardous,” according to its website.
