Chopping and Grinding Stumps is Part of Tree Removal on Sauerkraut Lane [Video]

At the end of the day, what do you have? Very few standing trees along Sauerkraut Lane.

Just before rush hour on Tuesday contractors for PPL Corp. were cleaning up the tree limbs and trunks that remained as part of the "vegetation management" it is performing in Lower Macungie Township.

The company says there have been too many power outages—mainly related to the Halloween storms the area has experienced in the past two years— and in areas where there are no trees in the right of way there are almost no outages.

Residents' impassioned pleas did not change the company's plan. It has no plan to replace the trees, though there is a list of compatible vegetation that homeowners can plant.

Click on Lower Macungie Patch's Facebook page to see the comments neighbors and passers-by on Wednesday made about the clearing project.