Trees are temporarily stranded in front of Surrey Museum as weather stalls their removal from the site.
The trees have been dug out of the earth and wrapped for transport in preparation for the upcoming expansion project expected to break ground this summer.
View in front of @ASurreyMuseum this rainy afternoon in #cloverdale as site prep gets underway for upcoming expansion project pic.twitter.com/Q3BXwp11EN
— Sam Anderson (@sam_andrsn) March 28, 2017
The $10.3-million expansion will add 12,000 square feet of space to the existing Surrey Museum.
The trees will find a home in a City of Surrey greenhouse, where they will wait out construction before returning after all is completed.
“It’s very important to the City that the trees are saved,” said museum manager Lynn Saffery.
According to Saffery, workers will re-sod the ground in front of the museum over the next few days and put up fences around any holes.