In Lunel, the twenty-three plane trees on Cours Péri and around the church pruned

Sur les premiers platanes, ce lundi, un élagueur grimpeur qui n’a pas peur.

Depuis ce lundi 5 février, quatre salariés de l’entreprise Côté cigale assurent l’opération.

It was buzzing from all sides, this Monday, February 5, on the Cours Gabriel-Péri. In addition to the noise of the work, almost usual for several weeks, it was the chainsaws that we heard in the heart of the city.

No offense to fans of horror films: no massacre but, on the contrary, an action for a good cause since it is a question of rsquo;prune the plane trees on this main artery of Lunel. Nineteen in total to which must be added the four around the church.

To carry out this operation, the last of which dates back to 2021 and which will end during next week, four staff from the Côté cigale company, located in Villetelle, are on foot from & rsquo;work to make a winter cut to the specimens. A short cut even. "More than usual, notes Morgan Verhille, from the pruning company, who has already worked on the trees in the city center five times in previous years. This is at the request of the municipality which, in addition to classic maintenance, requested this lower size.

Branches transported and composted

One could imagine that this would be so in order to limit jackdaw colonies and the health and noise pollution that they entail. The original reason is quite different. "Lowering the level of pruning allows the canopy to be lowered naturally, explains Philippe Gebelin, head of the city landscape and nature department at the town hall of Lunel.This will generate a canopy of foliage which will provide more shade and more freshness because it is closer to the ground".

After some cutting, last week, in Jean-Hugo Park, in order to remove the branches that presented a danger, the employees of Côté cigales rolled their machines over a few dozen meters. An implementation which was not easy and which had to be postponed from the end of last year to the beginning of this one given the work on the Gabriel-Péri course. It was necessary “to make do with”, especially since the tree-climbing pruners arrived with two baskets and a huge logging truck.< /p>

If the foliage above the roadway is therefore protected, an adjustment, i.e. the act of cutting the branches on the side of the houses and above the sidewalks, is carried out on the other hand. and others. Finally, said branches are transported to Côté cigale to end up in compost.

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