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Seminar on Naturalized Basins Set for Thursday

Pizzo and Associates, who has been maintaining the village's basins since 2007, will explain just how they are created, and why they are important.

The will spend more than $180,000 this year maintaining a dozen naturalized landscapes in basins around town. Tomorrow night, you can find out why.

At 6:30 p.m., representatives from Pizzo and Associates will conduct a seminar on naturalized basins, which they’re calling “Birds, Butterflies and People.” Pizzo, a Leland-based company, has been the village’s basin contractor since 2007. In March, the Village Board for one year, to the tune of $181,210—plus more than $267,000 in optional costs for additional services. 

What does Pizzo do for that money? They plant and maintain the basins, keeping them free of weeds and full of thriving natural grasses. The benefit, according to Pizzo, is a cleaner, healthier and more beautiful landscape.

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Pizzo currently maintains three village-owned basins, on Cornell Street, Civic Center Drive, and Orchard Road. The remaining nine are all in private subdivisions: Arbor Ridge, Balmorea, Blackberry Crossing, Fairfield Way, Fieldstone Place, Foxmoor, Marquis Point/Ogden Hill, Montgomery Crossing and Orchard Prairie North.

Special service area taxes from those subdivisions help to pay for the basins.

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Thursday’s presentation will include roughly 40 minutes of explanation, in which attendees will learn why naturalized basins are created, and how they are planted and maintained. The class will then move outside for a walking tour of the Civic Center basin, during which participants will be allowed to touch and smell the natural grasses for themselves.

The seminar is free and open to the public. It begins at 6:30 p.m. at the , 10 Civic Center Avenue.


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