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Freeport clearing debris
Published September 26, 2008
FREEPORT — Crews will be sweeping through the city through the weekend to pick up tree limbs and shrubbery from residents’ yards to take to a burn site.
People are asked to put the organic debris in piles so crews from Gulf Crowder can load them into hauling trucks, Freeport Fire Chief and EMS Director John Stanford said. He couldn’t give an estimate when the trucks will reach certain neighborhoods.
Stanford asked residents not to put non-organic debris — such as appliances, electronics or roof shingles — out with the tree limbs and shrubbery. Crews can pick up only organic debris.
The city set aside about $21,000 Tuesday for the cleanup, Mayor Larry McDonald said. He couldn’t say how much debris the crews are expected to remove from the city.
“But they tell me that there is so much of it that they can’t get but one block before the truck gets full,” McDonald said. “But we will continue until we can get it collected.”
The Federal Emergency Management Administration is reimbursing cities 100 percent of costs for debris removal through Saturday, Stanford said. That’s why crews will work quickly to get it all collected.
Once the debris is collected, it will be burned at a trench site. McDonald said the site is a field near old Highway 36 near the Freeport Golf Course.
Also, the city plans to rent a large wood chipper today that will break down branches into wood chips that can be used for mulch, Stanford said. They will run it for two days straight at a cost of $4,000.
“It’s expensive, but we thought it would be a good thing,” he said.
The mulch then will be placed outside of the city’s old service center adjacent to Lincoln Park for residents to pick up and take home to use, McDonald said. If residents don’t take all the mulch, the city will use it at municipal parks.
Stanford couldn’t say when people can pick up the mulch.
“We haven’t decided that yet,” he said.
Nathaniel Lukefahr covers Freeport for The Facts. Contact him at (979) 237-0151.
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