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Facts & Figures A staff of 34 full time employees provide services to over 1000 acres on the central campus in Oxford, MS. LSD staff attend over 20 hours a year of plant identification training, 20 to 50 hours of safety and operational training. LSD staff plant close to 20,000 seasonal color plants each year, 10,000 tulip bulbs and 10,000 daffodils in any given year. Mowing time on turfgrass has been reduced from 10 working days to four in the last 5 years. Department staffing was volunteering reduced from 31 full time employees to 24 in the year 2000 to 2004. The Department has implemented 18 time saving techniques have been essential in lowering cost and increasing productivity. There is approximately 172 acres of Bermuda 419 turf, 120 of common Bermuda, 40 acres of zoysia and 15 acres of turf type tall fescue on the campus. There are over 4000 trees inventoried in the central areas of the main campus. On average 200 new trees are planted each year around campus. The University currently has 2,312 metal bollards on campus with 15,994 linear feet (close to 3 miles) of chain between the bollards. There is over ten miles of street on campus that the LSD sweeps and or backpack blows on a weekly bases. The average amount of waste collected in the Grove after a home football game is roughly 200 cubic yards or close to 10 tons. It takes roughly 100 to 150 hours to clean up the Grove after each game. The Grove is over seeded with turf type tall fescue after the last home football game. On average, it take about 4500 pounds of seed to complete the seeding of the Grove. << Return to Landscape Services Home Page
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