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Proper Planting comes through Proper Planning

To keep new trees from growing into utility lines, plant small, medium and large mature-growth trees a proper distance from power line rights-of-way.

Planting around or close to underground utilities is not desirable, since the root systems may disrupt service.
Planting shrubs or ornamentals greater than 1 foot tall at maturity should be avoided around padmount transformers.
All plant materials with a mature height greater than 1 foot should be planted at least 10 feet from an underground line or padmount transformer.
These distances are necessary to facilitate ease of access to the transformer cover-door for maintenance of the transformer and restoration of service.

Tree species that are allowed to exist adjacent to higher-voltage transmission lines are very limited and are not covered in the following information.

Preferred tree for Central Kansas

Preferred tree for Eastern Kansas

Zone 1 - Small Trees

		American Plum
		Amur Maple
		Black Hills Spruce
		Cockspur Hawthorn (thornless)
		Eastern Burningbush
		Flowering Crabapple
		Flowering Dogwood
		Japanese Tree Lilac
		Oklahoma Redbud
		Pinyon Pine
		Washington Hawthorn
		Winterberry Euonymus

Zone 2 - Medium Trees

		Callery Ornamental Pear
		Chinkapin Oak
		Eastern Redbud
		Eastern Red Cedar
		Goldenrain Tree
		Hedge Maple
		Heritage River Birch
		Honey Locust (thornless)
		Hop Hornbeam (Ironwood)
		Imperial Honey Locust
		Japanese Tree Lilac
		Kentucky Coffee Tree
		Limber Pine
		Osage Orange (fruitless, thornless)
		Sawtooth Oak
		Shantung Maple (Purpleblow)
		Trident Maple
		Upright Chinese Juniper
		Western Soapberry
		White Mulberry
		Winter King Hawthorn

Zone 3 - Large Trees

		American Linden
		Austrian Pine
		Bald Cypress
		Bitternut Hickory
		Black Hickory
		Bur Oak
		Common Hackberry
		English Oak
		Ginkgo
		Green Ash
		Lacebark Elm
		Littleleaf Linden
		London Plane Tree
		Norway Maple
		Persimmon
		Red Maple
		Red Oak
		Scotch Pine
		Shagbark Hickory
		Shingle Oak
		Shumard's Red Oak
		Sugar Hackberry (Sugarberry)
		Sugar Maple
		Swamp White Oak
		Sweet Gum
		White Ash
		White Oak
		White Pine

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