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For
Immediate Release: December 20, 2006
Contact:
Keith Eisner, 704-2762 or 754-3360
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County
Opens Yard Waste Storm Debris Drop-off Points;
Waives Fees for Yard Waste Storm Debris at Waste and
Recovery
Center
In
response to damage from last week’s storm,
Thurston
County
commissioners approved a debris disposal program. The program, approved this
afternoon, calls for the opening of three drop-off sites in
Thurston
County
and the waiving of fees at the county’s Waste and Recovery Center (WARC) for
yard waste storm debris caused by the December 14-15 storm. The free service
is open to all residents of incorporated and unincorporated
Thurston
County
.
The three disposal sites are at the following locations:
> in the
Rochester
area, 500 feet north of the intersection of Sargent and Littlerock roads;
>
at the Griffin Athletic Fields,
6924 41st Avenue NW
off
Steamboat Island Road
and
>
at the
Rainier
Pit,
11414 133rd Avenue SE
.
Reader boards will be near the entrance to each site. The sites will be
open Saturday, December 23 and Sunday, December 24 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00
p.m., and on Saturday, January 6 and Sunday, January 7 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00
p.m.
Only
trees and tree limbs will be accepted. No dirt, rocks, weeds, sod,
stumps, painted or treated lumber, food waste or beauty bark will be accepted.
The
county’s Waste and
Recovery
Center
at
2418 Hogum Bay Road NE
(near Lacey) will accept tree and tree limbs felled by the storm for no charge
from Saturday, December 23 through Sunday, January 7; closed December 25 and
January 1. The WARC is open Mondays through Fridays from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m;
and Saturdays and Sundays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Only trees and limbs
will be accepted with no charge. Trunks and limbs longer than eight feet and
larger in diameter than eight inches must be taken to one of the three
outlying disposal sites listed above. The waiving of fees applies only
to trees and tree limbs downed by the storm.
Information
about the debris disposal program is available at the county’s Water and
Waste Management Office at 357-2491.
For
more information, contact Keith Eisner, 704-2762 or 754-3360
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