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Page 60 1 get my thoughts together. 2 You testified -- you testified that 3 tree maintenance is basically every ten years. 4 THE WITNESS: Yes. 5 MR. EBEN: That means whoever owns the 6 property has to come in on the property and direct a 7 contractor what to do. 8 And we -- we don't know or maybe you do 9 know, did PSE&G do that through the course of 10 100 years of owning the property. 11 THE WITNESS: It's -- it's generally 12 accepted that most trees need some form of 13 maintenance at least once every ten years and some 14 trees more frequently than that, particularly some of 15 these older pin oak trees, when a branch dies it's 16 eight inches in diameter and 40-feet long and it's 17 hanging over the street. You know, you can't wait 18 ten years to prune it, you got to get it before it 19 falls and causes damage. 20 So, but, you know, these trees, they're 21 -- there's been a low level of maintenance on this 22 site, and that's why there's been so many invasive 23 species, involuntary species that have popped up over 24 -- over the years, simply because they -- they 25 weren't -- you know, they didn't mow the areas or