Defensible Space Chipping - Las Tunas Chip Area

Defensible Space Chipping for the Las Tunas chip area starts Monday, April 29th, for homeowners who are within the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District. If you are a resident of this chip area, please remember to have your piles out by the date posted. Cut vegetation will not be chipped if it is put out after the crews have already passed through the area.

Thank you to all of the homeowners in the Sheffield/Parma, Las Canoas, West Mountain, Westmont/Circle and Coyote Road chip areas for ensuring that your cut vegetation was stacked and free of unwanted exotic pest plant species. This year we have already chipped over 100 tons of vegetation and recycled 100% of the chipped material!

Defensible Space Chipping - Coyote Road

Defensible Space Chipping for the Coyote Road chip area starts Monday, April 22nd, for homeowners who are within the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District. If you are a resident of the chip area, please remember to have your piles out by the date posted. Cut vegetation will not be chipped if it is put out after the crews have already passed through the area.

Defensible Space Chipping - Westmont/Circle

Defensible Space Chipping for the WESTMONT/CIRCLE chip area starts Monday, April 15TH, for homeowners who are within the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District. If you are a resident of the West Mountain chip area, please remember to have your piles out by the first of the month. Cut vegetation will not be chipped if it is put out after the crews have already passed through the area.

For information regarding vegetation that should not be stacked for chipping, please scroll down and review the information provided in the previous post.

Chipping Reminder: Exotic Pest Plants

To reduce the spread of exotic invasive plants, we would like to remind all homeowners in the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District to not place any cut vegetation for chipping that contain these non-native species:

Castor Bean

Arundo

All species of ivy

Fennel

French/Soft/Scotch/Spanish Broom

Ice Plant

Tobacco Weed

Pampas Grass

Fountain Grass

Mediterranean Grass

Tamarisk

Any kind of Bamboo

By clicking on the species listed above, you can view information that can help in identification of these species.

Our chipping program has been very successful over the years in recyclingng 99% of our chipped material by providing homeowners in the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District the option of utilizing their chipped material for ground cover, soil stability, and/or to maintain nutrient content in soils.

By keeping these species out of your cut and stacked vegetation, you are helping to reduce the spread of unwanted exotics in the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District.