Surface Root Damage. How bad and what to do?

[radmacd]

Hello,

I recently had some construction done in my front yard and it looks like the crew did some damage to a surface root. There was an excavator on the site for a few days but it looked like they always had it on top of a protective pad to prevent such damage.

Im now worried about the health of this Norway Maple and am unsure what to do about it.

Would someone be able to provide some guidance and an idea of how bad this damage is?

Thank You

 

[snobdds]

I wouldn't worry about a surface root.

I put in a new driveway with underground heating and had to remove some live roots to make it work. An entire patch of aspen got tore up, and aspen are all one big living thing. Nothing is dead and everything is doing fine.

 

[radmacd]

Should I remove the damaged bark from the root or should I just leave it?

 

[snobdds]

Leave it.

 

[TheJollyLogger]

That will heal fine... I'd worry more about overall soil compaction

 

[radmacd]

That will heal fine... I'd worry more about overall soil compaction

Is there anything I can do about that? I asked them to keep off the roots as much as possible. When would I know there was a problem?

I just tested I can stick a bamboo dowel about 6-8 inchs into the dirt around the work.

 

[TheJollyLogger]

That's not bad. You can get a root watering wand from home depot and just kind of poke it around the affected area, and you should be good...

 

[radmacd]

That's not bad. You can get a root watering wand from home depot and just kind of poke it around the affected area, and you should be good...

Would you mind sharing a link for what you are talkng about?