Riverfront trail and park contracts at Lowell
The riverfront trail at Lowell runs along the levee and needs surfacing, planting and bank work regularly. Crews on a Lowell trail contract take one unit at the parking lot access and move it as the work front travels. Nothing of ours goes onto the Lowell trail surface, which stays open to walkers wherever the contractor can manage.
Bank and habitat planting at Lowell keeps the unit up on the levee road outside the flagged buffer. Boat launch and pier inspection work at Lowell brings extra crews for two weeks, and we add a unit on the hardstand for those weeks before pulling it back again.
Flood ground and river levels at Lowell
The Snohomish comes up against the Lowell levee most winters and the low ground behind it takes water. We move a Lowell unit off the flats as soon as the river forecast turns rather than recover it afterward. Alluvial soil at Lowell stays saturated into late spring, so every rental down there gets a gravel or plank base.
Hard freezes are rare at Lowell, but they lock the rutted levee track solid and that is worse to drive.
Old streets and home projects in Lowell
Above the river, Lowell is streets of mill-era houses now being restored one at a time. A Lowell remodel keeps one unit on the driveway apron beside the dumpster for a few months. Lots in Lowell are narrow and the side yards are fenced, so the apron is nearly always the only position.
Tree crews work the Lowell bluff every winter clearing limbs off the drives and the street below. Those Lowell crews usually keep a unit for two weeks while the debris is chipped and carted off.