EHSA Frequently Asked Questions
Email your questions to echohill@oocities.com!
- What is the ANNUAL BRUSH PICK-UP?
The Annual Brush Pick-up is an EHSA sponsored event which involves association members cleaning up their yards and adjacent common land and piling the limbs and brush in piles along the roadside.
This work is done prior to the designated weekend -on which- the contracted service will begin removing the piles of liter using a chipping machine and truck. The following description describes what is covered by our agreement with the contractor as legitimate to include:
Branches that have fallen on your property or common land near your property should be piled with the heavy end toward the street (next to but not on the street). The longer the pieces the easier for the contractor to chip. No pine cones, leaves, yard debris or large limbs over 4 inches in diameter will be removed. Trees that the architectural committee may have given permission
to remove are not to be included in this clean-up as the home owner is responsible for whole tree removal.
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- Should we feed the black bears that visit ECHO Hill?
Link to partial answer: Bear Problems
We probably should not feed the black bears directly or indirectly. Feeding them will encourage them to stay around our properties and that is most likely a mistake. When they become a nuisance the environmental police will move them perhaps once or twice but if they persist as a nuisance the police will euthanize the bears.
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- Questions to be answered:
- Why pay dues to EHSA?
- What are dues used for?
- Where is common land and how can it be used?
Link to partial answer: Common Land
Link to: Clickable Map of Echohill
Link to: EHSA Marsh
Link to: EHSA Field
Link to: EHSA Pond
Link to: Adjacent Conservation Land
- What are the restrictions and why have them?
- What do the architectural restrictions cover?
- What are street grants (philosophy) and how do we obtain one?
- How can I get involved in the Association?
- What is happening to Hemlock trees?
Link to: Wooly Adelgids