11:44, June 12, 2012
The planned construction of a water pipe in the village of Odzoun in Armenia's northern Lori Marz might well kill more than 150 pine trees towering alongside a 200 meter stretch of road.
Construction is set to begin in a few days by the utility, Armenia Water and Sewer.
Yezek Aghvanyan, a village resident who’s a rural economist by profession, told Hetq that plans to dig a trench down the road will surely harm the trees since they have shallow roots.
Aghvanyan argues that the utility has other options as to where to install the water pipe.
The pine trees were planted in 1948 by the Odzoun collective farm as a barrier from mountain rains flooding the fields below.
Armenian News
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