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In Jefferson County the disturbance line is 2,000 square feet. Across the river it is an acre. This is the single most useful thing to know before you price clearing here, because the two numbers are a factor of twenty apart. The Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District states that land disturbance in excess of 2,000 square feet requires a Site Disturbance Permit, with a Small Site permit covering 2,000 square feet to 0.99 acres and a Large Site permit taking over at one acre, at which point plans must be prepared by a Professional Engineer and a Notice of Intent goes to the Kentucky Division of Water. In Clark and Floyd counties, Indiana's Construction Stormwater General Permit engages at one acre or more, or below that where the work forms part of a larger common plan of development or sale. Oldham, Bullitt and Shelby counties are separate programmes again. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination. The full sequence, with sources, is in our Louisville land clearing permit guide.

The knobs are shale under a hard cap, and they behave accordingly. South and east of the city the Knobs region begins: the Kentucky Geological Survey describes it as hundreds of steep sloping, often cone-shaped hills whose slopes are mostly composed of shales of the Mississippian-age Borden Formation, which are less resistant to erosion, sitting under resistant limestone or sandstone crests. Bernheim Forest south of Louisville sits in it. In Bullitt County the survey notes that slopes are steep but cliffs are rare, and that individual knobs may rise 400 feet or more above the valleys of Rolling Fork and Salt River. The same landform continues north of the river, where Indiana's Department of Natural Resources describes the Knobstone Escarpment through Clark County as land of extreme relief with narrow, flat-topped ridges. The practical point is identical on both sides: strip a knob slope to bare shale and the first heavy rain takes the working layer with it, which is why grinding material in place and leaving it as cover is usually the better trade here.

What you are looking at is probably bush honeysuckle. Amur honeysuckle is the most common invasive bush honeysuckle in Kentucky, brought into the country in the late 1800s and actively promoted for conservation and wildlife planting in the 1960s and 1970s, with its greatest occurrence in the northern and central parts of the state, which is exactly where this market sits. Kentucky's forest health programme puts it among the worst plants in the state and describes bush honeysuckles as shrubs that rapidly invade and overtake a site, decreasing light availability, depleting soil moisture and nutrients, and possibly releasing chemicals that stop other plants growing nearby. Two consequences for a quote. First, the wall you are trying to get through is shrub rather than timber, which is efficient work for a mulching head. Second, it comes back from the crown after a plain cut, so a follow-up plan belongs in the conversation. Our guide to bush honeysuckle removal around Louisville covers what that looks like in practice.

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