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What's going on with trash and debris cleanup
by The Times-Picayune
Wednesday September 03, 2008, 3:55 PM
ORLEANS PARISH
-- Bi-weekly garbage collection in New Orleans is scheduled to resume today.
-- Public works departments and private garbage haulers across New Orleans are already clearing streets littered with tree limbs, marquees, light poles and power lines.
-- The city's 311 hotline was fully functional for residents to report downed trees, traffic lights and streetlamps.
-- SDT waste trucks were out cleaning up debris and sweeping streets in the French Quarter
Tuesday morning.
ST. BERNARD PARISH
-- Crews began clearing debris Monday evening, and all roads inside the levee protection system were passable.
-- Returning residents should place any extra debris on their curbs for crews to pick up later.
JEFFERSON PARISH
-- Garbage service in Kenner will resume Friday for those residences that are regularly scheduled for that day of the week. All other residents can put their garbage on the curb Sunday night to be collected Monday.
-- All major streets have been cleared of fallen trees and debris. Crews have been working since early Tuesday to restore streetlights.
-- Removal of storm debris is on hold until next week
ST. CHARLES PARISH
-- Coastal Waste resumed garbage pickup Friday.
-- Debris pickup will start Monday. Residents are asked to pile downed tree limbs and debris at curbside but to keep waste out of the ditches. Residents are asked not to burn the debris.
-- Trash containers are locatred at Willowdale Diversion, Paul Maiullard Road and River Road, St. Mark's Church on River Road in Ama, Apple and River Road in Norco, Charlestowne Drive and River Road in St. Rose, WPA Road and Longview in Des Allemands.
ST. TAMMANY PARISH
-- Coastal Waste Services will begin picking up household waste only, no storm debris, in the city of Covington on Thursday.
-- Pickup of hurricane debris in the unincorporated areas of St. Tammany will not begin until next week. The parish will release a debris pickup schedule.
-- All major thoroughfares in Slidell appeared clear Tuesday.
Stay with Nola.com for more updates.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER
-- The Coast Guard will reopen the river after the Corps of Engineers inspects the river for storm-related shoaling and hazards to navigation - a category that includes any remaining run-away ships or barges floating free in the river.
--The corps will send two survey vessels to check Southwest Pass for any storm-triggered shoaling in the river that could impact traffic.
-- The Corps' big dredge will be returned from Baton Rouge to its home port in New Orleans and that trip will help crews assess navigational hazards.
WAY to go STD waste maybe all the parishes should look at the job STD is doing do you think WASTE MANAGEMENT would be doing the same .I hope JEFFERSON PARISH looks at this and get STD for there service
just curious, but where did they get the workers to do that? did they tell every one to leave unless they drove a trash truck?
Excuse me people but do you ever sit there and think about these peoples families??? I mean there whole lives DO NOT revolve around picking up your trash! kzgcloud3 I bet your are living a life a luxury right now. Why dont you go and apply for a job at Waste Management and pick up your own damn trash :]
SDT is great. Friendly workers cleaning up the day after the storm. Torres for Mayor!
SDT is ONLY grandstanding!! They ONLY have 12 square blocks in the Quarter to cleanup!!! And the garbage that they were cleaning up, was left there by them the day before the storm!!! SDT is a JOKE!!!
No news now. But, in a few days the news from the East will be "Man found shot..."
Just kidding, my thoughts and prayers are with everyone and their families. Hoping this is another opportunity for folks to get their act together. That includes all of us.
No news now. But, in a few days the news from the East will be "Man found shot..."
Just kidding, my thoughts and prayers are with everyone and their families. Hoping this is another opportunity for folks to get their act together. That includes all of us.
I'm writing from out of state for family in St. John without power. Does anyone know of anywhere around to get gasoline? I know it's a long shot but it can't hurt to ask. Thanks very much.
LOL...Let's get the quarters cleaned, Saints game on Sunday, New Orleans is BACK!!!!!!!
kzgcloud3, If the City would have paid Waste Managment double like they are paying SDT I am sure they would be out there spit shineing the streets.
Normal garbage pick up begins on Friday for Metairie too... go to the website
WOW! I don't know who was out there this afternoon - but the guys who cleared up the Carrollton Ave area did an incredible job! We had everything piled up by the road - and they made it disappear - you'd never know anything had happened. Thank you!
The garbage, including wrapped-up branches and bagged leaves, have not been picked up in Lower Garden District. We spent Wednesday afternoon picking up on front and side of our house so it could be picked up on Thursday. Our regular pickup dates are Thursday and Monday. If they don't come by today, the heat is going to cause the garbage to reek by the weekend.
So, where are they? The city said it was commencing yesterday.
I heard the mayor say trash pick up would resume. My day is Monday and Thursday. I had it all out Wed. nite and no Richards Disposal. I stayed for the storm, made some garbage, also had garbage from last week in the can. Today is Friday. Hope I don't have to wait until next Monday. I thought the big contract was supposed to ensure that this didn't happen. Such is life after the monster of all storms.
I live in St Tammany and SDT picked up my trash on Tuesday morning. I even saw Sidney Torres driving the trash truck it was unbelievable. My neighbors have another trash company and they are still waiting for their trash to be collected.
Since Orleans Parish is a federal disaster area, will the Corps be sending around bobcats to collect limbs and debris as they did after Katrina? I'm busy piling it on my curb, so it would be nice if we could have some information regarding Orleans storm debris. Orleans Parish is the only parish that has not provided that information, and we needed to hear about it days ago.
Educate yourself on the following important topics so that you may comprehend better what is happening around you:
HAARP- High Frequency Active Auroral Research
a project set up in Northern Alaska devoted to weather manipulation
CHEMTRAILS - Deliberate spraying of our skies with long plumes of toxic aerosol
PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE #51 - One of nastiest aspects of that criminal document called the Patriot Act
FEMA CAMPS - Internment camps set up around the country. Lots of documentation on this one.
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