{"id":1392,"date":"2021-09-08T16:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/?page_id=1392"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:13:28","slug":"grounds-and-landscaping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/grounds-and-landscaping\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounds and Landscaping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Hours of Operation:\u00a0 Monday &#8211; Friday, \u00a05:30 am &#8211; 1:30 pm (except University holidays)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Telephone:&nbsp; (410) 651-7821 \u2022 Fax:&nbsp; (410) 651-7918<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Manager:&nbsp; Jicola Sturgis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grounds provides landscape maintenance and support for over 250 acres of the 750 acre UMES campus.&nbsp;&nbsp;Landscape services include mowing and weed control, shrub and flower bed maintenance, planting 10,000 bulbs and 10,000 annuals yearly,&nbsp;irrigation, and pest control.&nbsp; Maintenance services include solid waste disposal, masonry,&nbsp;lawnmower and heavy equipment repair, parking lot maintenance, and sidewalk maintenance.&nbsp; Grounds&nbsp;also&nbsp;provides services that support&nbsp;the campus recycling program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Being Green&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grounds has incorporated work practices to conserve resources and sustain our environment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Less mulch use around trees; recycling existing mulch<\/li><li>Using &#8220;Gator&#8221; bags around newly planted trees and shrubs<\/li><li>Using a drip emitter system to water individual plants in flower beds (requires as little as 1\/2 gallon of water per hour for each plant)<\/li><li>Four underground irrigation systems with rain sensors will operate based on the amount of moisture in the ground<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grounds is staffed with&nbsp;ten full-time employees and two part-time employees. The campus is serviced in sections by&nbsp;groundskeeping crews; each crews consists of a Groundskeeper Lead and two groundskeepers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours of Operation:\u00a0 Monday &#8211; Friday, \u00a05:30 am &#8211; 1:30 pm (except University holidays) Telephone:&nbsp; (410) 651-7821 \u2022 Fax:&nbsp; (410) 651-7918 Manager:&nbsp; Jicola Sturgis Grounds provides landscape maintenance and support for over 250 acres of the 750 acre UMES campus.&nbsp;&nbsp;Landscape services include mowing and weed control, shrub and flower bed maintenance, planting 10,000 bulbs and&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/grounds-and-landscaping\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Grounds and Landscaping<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-1392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}