PSE&G Tree Contractors Perform Preventive Maintenance

PSE&G tree contractors were out on this frigid day performing necessary trim maintenance to protect the power-lines on Oakland & Courter Avenue across from Maplecrest Park.

Based out of Cedar Grove, NJ, the Utility company's tree specialists are routinely provided with job orders in Essex County to ensure that  the presence of maple, oak and pine trees don't present a hazard to electrical power-lines. The crews are routinely dispatched approximately every four years, or sooner based on critical need, to trim encroaching overhead branches that may come into contact with the high voltage lines which might cause an immediate hazard or interruption of service.

Of no small coincidence, these crews are specialists in understanding and dealing with the wide variety of arbor that are so plentiful in this town. A spokesman for the crew explained that the maple species has a life-cycle of up to 40 years, whereas an oak species may last up to 400 years, and each has it's own requirements for proper and safe trim.

The spokesman also cited PSE&G's commitment to careful and aesthetic trimming, that has earned the utility recognition as provider of the best reliable maintenance service of all utilities over the past three years. Not to be totally self-aggrandising, the spokesman called the Maplewood DPW one of the most capable, responsible and multi-skilled crews among the local communities.

And, perhaps most impressively, nobody got hurt.