[originally posted May 31]

 

Dear Baywood Residents,

 

Delaware Electric Cooperative (DEC) has notified us that they are unable to perform maintenance upon a number of electric transformers within Baywood, due to vegetation obstructing the doors of electric equipment. This vegetation includes trees, shrubbery, and other plantings that have grown so large that the equipment is either hidden from view, or difficult to access.

 

Typically, DEC notifies individual homeowners of the requirement to clear overgrown vegetation. If you click on the button below, you can read the notice that they typically send.

 

Rather than make this maintenance work the responsibility of our homeowners, or having a DEC contractor come in and "butcher" those plantings that could otherwise be trimmed back with care, Baywood's Horticulture Department will be performing this work.

 

Over the coming months, we will be directly contacting those homeowners (about 50) who have been identified as having overgrown plantings adjacent to critical electric equipment. We will schedule most of this work to occur in the fall and winter.

 

This work is mandatory, and not optional for us or individual homeowners. Even if you are not directly affected, before you invest time and money in additional plantings in the area of electric equipment, please consider this issue in your planning.

 

We appreciate your cooperation & patience!