The work on replacing the sidewalks along Mergens Street is well underway. However, part of the work has seen some trees cut down - this due to the roots of the tree causing the sidewalk to buckle.
Jennifer Wilkinson, Director of Engineering for the City of Weyburn said they try to keep the trees if they can.
"It'll depend on how their root system is," she noted. "The biggest thing is, if we do cut back the roots, probably the tree is going to die, if we do have to affect the root system. So in the end, we usually end up taking them down as a precaution."
She said that in the cases of more of those developed areas, depending on where the trees are, the tree roots can get under the sidewalk and they will start to buckle up, so the felling is ultimately to preserve the new sidewalk.
"Also to ensure that we don't kill the tree and have it come down later, we'll we'll preemptively take it down," said Wilkinson.
"If that's the case, in those situations, we do consult with the Parks Department to make sure that we're making the right choice and we do at any chance try and save the trees."
She added a big part of the City's Urban Forestry Plan is to save as many of the trees as much as they can, "but in certain instances we can't."
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