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Dec. 11. Old trash carts will be picked up by WCA/Town & Country on Dec. 27-28.Residents who live north of Lucy Webb Road and west of Madison Street will continue to have their trash and recycling picked up on Wednesdays, according to the city.Residents who live south of Lucy Webb Road or east of Madison Street will have their trash picked up on Thursdays. The city said if you live on Lucy Webb Road or Madison Street, the trash day will be determined by the side of the roadway on which you live. For more information, visit www.raymore.com/trash or call the city’s utilities office at 816-331-5182.Aside from Raymore and Belton, the city of Harrisonville also opted for a new trash services provider to start work in 2018Harrisonville decided in August to negotiate a new contract with Municipal Waste Services, a change from WCA/Town & Country. The new monthly charge will be $14.80 per residence, which includes an administrative fee from the city.The new contract begins Jan. 1. A draft of the contract, which was approved Nov. 20 by the Harrisonville Board of Aldermen, is available on the city’s website. (Kansas City Star)
Savanna Plant. The West Bank Interceptor extends on the west bank of the Pearl River from the Savanna Plant to the Hinds-Madison County line.Ward 4 Councilman DeKeither Stamps asked at the meeting how the consent-decree requirements will affect the City's public-works capacity and hiring. "Because the system is crumbling because of lack of basic maintenance from internal capacity of the public-works department," Stamps said.Burns and McDonnell's program management director, John Pruss, responded that the department needs additional maintenance workers for the sewage system. But, he warned, they need to earn enough pay to stay in the jobs. Many workers complete the proper training and leave to work for private industries, he said.Replacing decaying infrastructure is a primary concern as well. "The sewer pipes and the manholes deteriorate over time. Over time, the pipes will crack and collapse, and obstructions occur," Pruss said.Pruss and Baughman explained how Jackson experienced a number of sewage overflows that occurred during both wet and dry weather. Pruss stressed that overflows should not occur during dry weather seasons. He displayed a graph showing the reported sewer overflows from 2014 to 2017."In that 40-month period, 25 months had more dry weather overflows when there really should be little to none," Pruss said.The consultants added that the capital investment would cost the City between $615 million and $800 million annually in order to meet these requirements. Along with that, operation and maintenance would range between $2.5 million and $3.5 million.Email city reporter William Kelly III at william@jacksonfreepress.com. Follow @jxnfreepress on Twitter for breaking news. (Jackson Free Press)
Before joining DSNY, Garcia earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and gained experience in the environmental world by working at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for about seven years.Garcia points to the use of new technology as a key to her goal of creating a cleaner and safer system of trash collection. “We see an opportunity to synchronize the trucks that we use for collection with the waste stream,” Garcia noted. “If we access the available technology, we are able to see trends, implement education and achieve our goal of zero waste.”“It’s also really important that our department and community understand that there’s been a change in lifestyle. We don’t have five daily newspapers anymore and people ordering on-line has led to tremendous increase in the amount of corrugated cardboard that we are dealing with.”The next step with that comes a look at the relationship between the foodservice operator and the food distributor marketplace. img data-attachment-id="15938" data-permalink="https://totalfood.com/kathryn-garcia-clear-vision-nyc-sanitation-initiative-inaugural-conference/foodwastefair-promo/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/totalfood.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FoodWasteFair-Promo.jpg?fit=696%2C362&ssl=1" data-orig-size="696,362" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{" aperture="" data-image-title="FoodWasteFair-Promo" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/totalfood.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FoodWasteFair-Promo.jpg?fit=300%2C156&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/totalfood.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FoodWasteFair-Promo.jpg?fit=696%2C362&ssl=1" class="size-full wp-image-15938" src="https://i0.wp.com/totalfood.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FoodWasteFair-Promo.jpg?resize=696%2C362&ssl=1" alt="NYC Food Waste Fair Kathryn Garcia...
SOCRRA sues after city block access to recycling center on John RBlockades put up by the city of Madison Heights keep out recycling workers and trucks that were set in May 2017 to begin entering an old recycling facility owned by the regional trash authority called SOCRRA. The city says the vacant site has numerous code violations and also says the authority's plan to start reusing it will send noise, dust, odors and possible pollution at nearby residents, a school and a baseball field.(Photo: Brian Hartwell, City of Madison Heights)The Hatfields and McCoys it’s not – because this feud has players in business suits who fire off legal briefs instead of shotguns.But just as bitter as anything that ever raged in the mountains of West Virginia is a 40-year vendetta over trash, and it just flashed anew between the city of Madison Heights and Oakland County’s big 12-city trash authority called SOCRRA.After decades of lawsuits and, well, trash talk, things had been quiet for a few years. But this spring, SOCCRA dropped a bombshell: The authority would soon reopen its dormant trash storag... (Detroit Free Press)
William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center, the only one in the city. The building near 6th Street and North Madison Street would get new roofing, a new paint job, plumbing repairs and other needed attention. ... (Delaware 105.9)
