Seattle Public Utilities -- For Landscape Professionals

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Landscaping Resources for Professionals

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Make your landscape maintenance practices environmentally sound.

For landscape professionals, the business environment is linked to the natural environment. Threatened Northwest salmon runs, drought, and clients’ requests for environmentally sound landscaping practices all have an effect.

Get information here that will help you keep up on environmental issues that affect your work and help you to provide environmentally sound landscape practices in a cost-effective way.

• Get the facts on how to implement Integrated Pest Management.
• Read the latest report on Ecologically Sound Lawn Care.
• Learn about Soils for Salmon: Restoring Living Soils with Compost.
• Get landscape and irrigation tips from the Saving Water Web site.
• Learn about recent problems with clopyralid herbicide in compost
• Sign up for IPM workshops for landscapers and groundskeepers (See Integrated Pest Management under the Related links for registration information)

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Plus, tell your clients about a number of valuable resources on our site, such as:

• How to Compost at Home.
• About Audits and Financial Assistance for Water Efficient Irrigation.

Working with the landscape industry
Seattle Public Utilities is linked to the natural environment, too.

As a steward of natural resources in our area, we provide water supply, solid waste, and drainage and wastewater services -- services that all relate to landscaping. Working together with landscape professionals to preserve the environment that sustains us is an important focus in our landscaping outreach.

We are currently collaborating with individuals and organizations within the industry to pursue options to preserve quality soils in new development, to promote water conservation in the landscape and to provide irrigation audits for commercial and residential properties.

For more information about:

• Soil, composting, and overall sustainable landscape design, installation, and maintenance, see the Natural Landscaping Guidelines (PDF) for professionals, or contact David McDonald at (206) 684-7650 or david.mcdonald@seattle.gov
• Water conservation in the landscape, contact Nota Lucas at (206) 684-5855 or nota.lucas@seattle.gov
• Sprinkler rebates, contact Jenna Smith at (206) 684-5955 or jenna.smith@seattle.gov.
• Bio-based lubricants and hydraulic fluids, see the Bio-Based Oils (PDF) fact sheet, or contact Shirli Axelrod at (206) 684-7804 or shirli.axelrod@seattle.gov

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