GENERATORS Connued from page 27


include long term storage, fuel storage, and suitable locaons to operate.


The process of refueling may also be a hazard for some residents, and some communies have taken proacve measure to restrict the use of gasoline fueled portable generators specically for this reason. Increasingly, manufacturers are oering products that can operate with natural gas provided from the home’s ulity source, or propane. With these units the same cauons should be taken as with the gasoline generators, and homeowners and communies will want to take a careful look at local fuel gas codes in order to provide guidance on proper storage and the proper conguraon of a temporary ulity connecon for a portable natural gas red generator. As with a permanently installed standby generator, communies and residents will want to review the local noise ordinances to determine acceptable hours of operaon and to limit the nuisance to neighboring properes.


Generators, when permied, can be a benecial tool to alleviate the problems associated with power outages. They can also provide reassurance to homeowners during mes of great stress created by normal outages or catastrophic weather events. Finally, when ulized by community organizaons in large mul family structures, in community clubhouses, or in recreaon facilies, they can provide a great area of refuge for shareholders, neighbors, and friends to warm up, store medicine, or just get a cup of coee and socialize in areas where logiscs or municipal restricons may not permit the installaon of a generator at their own residence.


As always, check with your community manager and local municipality to inquire as to your community’s specic requirements.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR James A. Trynosky PE, LEED AP is a Senior Engineer with CAI Business Partner member Falcon Engineering, Architecture & Energy Consultants.


SPRAY Connued from page 16


to kill everything, which you’re probably not, selecve herbicides are best for spraying weeds in your lawn.


When pung together a turf spray program, know what types of weeds are most prevalent on your property. If your turf has a lot of clover, you would use a parcular selecve herbicide. However, if dandelions are a problem, you would use a completely dierent product. Before spraying your property, your landscape professional should walk the property and determine what the targeted weeds are. Aer that evaluaon they can apply a proper mix of selecve herbicides to eliminate the weeds in your turf.


As selecve herbicides work on plants that are already growing, it is best to spray them when the soil temperatures is above 65 degrees. A weed that is acvely growing will beer consume the herbicide, giving you beer control.


Summary


The strategy for controlling weeds on your property will always be a combinaon of pre & post, selecve and nonselecve herbicides. Most of these produces have been used for many years and have proven to be very eecve. The key is to make sure they are applied at the proper rate and me to maximize their eecveness.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jim Yannie is the President of CAI business partner member Outside Unlimited LLC.


He can be contacted via email at: jim@outsideunlimited.net.


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