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Sherman: 146 customers Stamford: 266 customers Stratford: 137 customers Trumbull: 48 customers Weston: 226 customers Westport: 2,093 customers, 17% of the town Wilton: 1,569 customers, or 21% of the town Eversource was reporting 129,061 customers without power statewide as of Monday afternoon. UI was reporting 5,021 customers without power. Click here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts. (Bridgeport Daily Voice)
WESTPORT — Residents looking to get rid of household hazardous waste can do so on Saturday. The Westport/Weston Health District, located at 180 Bayberry Lane, will accept items from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The program is intended to provide a safe management option for residents to dispose of hazardous household items.There is an extensive list of items being accepted, with several items not being accepted as well.Degreasers, gasoline, kerosene, mineral spirits, paint strippers, paint thinners, solvents, turpentine and wood preservatives are some examples of items residents may have in their garages that they might want to dispose of.Some examples of items used in a garden that residents may want to get rid of are fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides and fungicides. Residents can expect the following household items to be accepted: bleach, charcoal lighter, cleaning chemicals, drain cleaners, floor and furniture polish, flammable liquids, mercury thermometers, moth balls, pet flea shampoos, rug shampoos, photo chemicals and spot removers. But as for items not expected, the... (CT Post)
Daniel Stermer, the mayor of Weston, a wealthy suburb near Fort Lauderdale, says the wide swath of damage makes it harder for anyone to attract enough workers. The debris haulers often come from out of state, and travel across the country in the wake of disasters. Many of them went to Texas to clean up after Hurricane Harvey a week before Irma pummeled Florida and Georgia. Irma’s huge trail of destruction further spread out the people and equipment that responded.But there’s not much cities can do about it, says Stermer, who is the Broward County League of Cities' point person on debris removal. “What are we going to do? Go to court?” he says. “That’s not going to fix the problem today. Everybody wants it done, and they want it done yesterday.”That said, the Florida attorney general’s office is investigating at least three waste-hauling companies to determine whether they tried to gouge cities by raising their rates after the hurricane hit.Attorney General Pat Bondi sent the companies subpoenas as part of an investigation into allegations that the contractors are not doing work for the rates they negotiated before the storm, are holding off on doing work until they can negotiate higher rates or are responding slowly for their contract work.“Sitting debris is a health and safety hazard and needs to be removed as soon as possible – but instead of doing their jobs and helping Floridians recover, apparently some contractors are delaying the work or requesting higher rates,” Bondi said in a statement.Another big source of frustration for Florida city officials? The high concentration of gated communities. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has a long-standing policy that it won’t reimburse cities for the cost of removing debris from private property, including gated communities.That's a problem, says Stermer, the Weston mayor. Most of his c... (Governing)
