South Sioux City kicks off fall cleanup today
By Michele Linck | Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008
SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- Today starts South Sioux City's Fall 2008 Clean Sweep.
It's the week residents drag tree branches, junk and other stuff they no longer want to the curb to have it hauled away as part of their regular garbage service.
"It's really just common stuff that you see over and over," David Bligh, the city's street foreman, said, "a lot of furniture and couches, a lot of boxes of toys for some reason, a lot of videos -- VHS movies. It's 99 percent normal stuff."
Bligh said the collection used to get more useable items such as lawn mowers and string trimmers that could be made useable again, but not much anymore.
The pickup coincides with residents' regular garbage collection day, but comes with a few extra guidelines:
-- All metal in one pile;
-- Yard waste in one stack; it can be put out in a garbage cart, but no plastic bags allowed;
-- Tree limbs, branches and brush must be cut into 4-foot lengths or shorter and stacked separately;
-- Furniture must be broken into manageable-size pieces and set at curb separately;
-- All other items in a separate pile;
-- Do not mix other debris with yard waste.
The following items will not be collected during the cleanup:
-- Construction and demolition materials such as lumber, plywood, wallboard, plaster, lathe, nails, shingles, roofing paper, siding, bricks, concrete blocks or broken concrete;
-- Hazardous materials such as petroleum products of any type, pesticides and herbicides, batteries, glass, caustic or acidic substances, oil base paint or poisonous substances;
-- Tires.
The city provides an identical service each spring.
For more information, call the Public Works Department office at 494-7534.
Not one of the above?
Items not covered by this list may be taken to the L.P. Gill Landfill in Jackson, Neb.; normal landfill fees will apply. Hours are 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday and from 6 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
It's the week residents drag tree branches, junk and other stuff they no longer want to the curb to have it hauled away as part of their regular garbage service.
"It's really just common stuff that you see over and over," David Bligh, the city's street foreman, said, "a lot of furniture and couches, a lot of boxes of toys for some reason, a lot of videos -- VHS movies. It's 99 percent normal stuff."
Bligh said the collection used to get more useable items such as lawn mowers and string trimmers that could be made useable again, but not much anymore.
The pickup coincides with residents' regular garbage collection day, but comes with a few extra guidelines:
-- All metal in one pile;
-- Yard waste in one stack; it can be put out in a garbage cart, but no plastic bags allowed;
-- Tree limbs, branches and brush must be cut into 4-foot lengths or shorter and stacked separately;
-- Furniture must be broken into manageable-size pieces and set at curb separately;
-- All other items in a separate pile;
-- Do not mix other debris with yard waste.
The following items will not be collected during the cleanup:
-- Construction and demolition materials such as lumber, plywood, wallboard, plaster, lathe, nails, shingles, roofing paper, siding, bricks, concrete blocks or broken concrete;
-- Hazardous materials such as petroleum products of any type, pesticides and herbicides, batteries, glass, caustic or acidic substances, oil base paint or poisonous substances;
-- Tires.
The city provides an identical service each spring.
For more information, call the Public Works Department office at 494-7534.
Not one of the above?
Items not covered by this list may be taken to the L.P. Gill Landfill in Jackson, Neb.; normal landfill fees will apply. Hours are 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday and from 6 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
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