Utah residents heartbroken after city’s major blunder poisons $500,000 worth of trees: ‘Everyone was shocked’

In Salt Lake City, a parks official accidentally killed hundreds of trees on public land by spraying them with “the wrong herbicide,” NBC News affiliate KSL 5 TV reported. The mistake will reportedly cost taxpayers around $500,000. Residents will also have to wait at least two years for the replacement trees to be planted, as it will take that long for the soil to be decontaminated.

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