VRMP Template – By Section
Step 4- (UTRI) Results
•Third: Areas of Assessment and Mitigation by Table
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| The last to include in this section are Areas of Assessment and Mitigation by Table.
| Explain the table and its use for field verification in this section.
| Here is the image of the overall worksheet produced from the information derived from
| the UTRI. The user will complete up to the inspection level and include that detailed
| Information in the next section.
| This table is used during field verification to verify that the UTRI ranking is correct or
| not at each location and to notate necessary mitigation required, if any.
| If the UTRI ranking is not correct it will be necessary to adjust the ranking to a higher or
| lower ranking which in turn will change that road segments’ inspection schedule accordingly.
| The worksheet, which includes Right of Way Road Segments listed by priority (very high,
| high, moderate, and low), utilizes initial tree evaluations and mitigation steps recommended
| and completed.
| After field verifications are made, the results for action needed are placed in the Mitigation column
| The worksheet therefore guides the mitigation work. Mitigation might include pruning, removing,
| or taking no action. Mitigation, if any, will be listed in the Mitigation column. Of course, a detailed
| spreadsheet or another mechanism of tracking work planning will need to be developed or tallied to
| total number of trees for prunes and removals as well as size of tree by caliper, etc.