Tree Removal in Ansonia, CT

Ansonia is a narrow Naugatuck River valley city, and the numbers make the shape clear: an 18 foot low where the Naugatuck leaves the south boundary, a 450 foot high on the east boundary, and an average valley floor about a mile wide. A property on the valley floor and one on the hillside above it are different jobs with the same tree standing on them, so it is worth not treating the city as flat.

It is also the densest place we work. Ansonia runs 2.1 housing units per acre against 1.8 in Derby, 0.8 in Seymour and 0.3 in Woodbridge, which the city's own plan attributes to a small land area and a high proportion of multifamily housing. Close set housing means the work zone survey around structures, service drops, fences and driveways is the job rather than a formality.

The housing is old. The 2018 city plan reports a 2015 median construction year of 1951, with about 90 percent of structures built before 1970 and 42 percent before 1939. Trees planted around houses of that age have had decades to grow into the space, and the space here was never generous.

The city plan identifies slopes above 25 percent, watercourses and water bodies, floodplain and public water supply watershed areas as its sensitive land, with poorly drained soils as its wetland resource category. Water has form here: the August 1955 tropical storm and Hurricane Diane event produced major Naugatuck Valley flooding that knocked down bridges, and the flood wall system that followed was built to reduce the damage next time.

We cover the whole city. Route 8 and Route 115 run north to south and Route 243 runs east to west, with Route 334, Wakelee Avenue, Franklin Street, Maple Street, Olson Drive, Pershing Drive, Beaver Street, Hill Street, Jewett Street and Marshall Lane named among the key local roads.

One access fact matters more here than almost anywhere: the Bridge Street Bridge and the Maple Street Bridge are the only two river crossings in the city. On a job that needs a truck from the other side, that is worth knowing at the quote rather than on the day, and it is a real reason to confirm staging, traffic control, bridge and load restrictions and utility clearance with the responsible authority rather than reading access off a map.

Ansonia borders Seymour to the north, Woodbridge to the east, and Derby to the south and west. We work across that area from our base in Oxford, and all three of those are towns we cover in full.

Species here follow the county rather than a city inventory, and no Ansonia specific inventory of what is planted around houses exists. The documented New Haven County native hardwood mix is red and white oak, red maple, hickories, birches, chestnut oak on the rocky ridges, black and scarlet oak, sycamore in the river bottoms, tulip tree on moist sites, black cherry, beech, elm, hemlock and ash. Statewide, DEEP's current threat list runs from emerald ash borer and hemlock woolly adelgid to beech leaf disease and spotted lanternfly.

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For a tree wholly on private property, Ansonia publishes no permit requirement. The codified city rule that does exist applies to a tree standing upon any street or highway: under the city code, nobody may cut one down without a permit from the Board of Aldermen. State law separately governs public trees, so on a city grid this is the first thing to establish rather than the last.

Near water, the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission is Ansonia's sole municipal licensing authority for regulated activities affecting wetlands and watercourses under the state statute. Three of its seven members come from the Conservation Commission. Given how much of the city's sensitive land is watercourse, floodplain and water supply watershed, that review catches more work here than the tree alone would suggest.

On a wire, call United Illuminating on 800-722-5584, not the city and not us. UI provides electric service to Ansonia and directs customers there for a tree and power line problem. For an immediate danger, 911 first. This is the single most common thing people get wrong about Ansonia, because most of the towns around it are Eversource.

We remove trees and clear land. Diagnosis, treatment and anything arborist is a licensed arborist's work, and we will point you at one rather than guess.