“Clean-Up” Team Planning Report
HORIZONS CLEAN –UP PLANNING TEAM Report
December 2007
Votes from the Blog Question of the Week: Which type of cleanup did they want the Horizons Team to focus:
Blog Vote:
Superfund Clean-up 75%
(Clean-up to average 250 ppm in community (EPA/ARCO), not at each site…)
Town Clean-up/Entrance clean-up 25%
Karen Solberg report from Tri_County area:
Our county receives over 100 complaints each year on junk/weeds/clean-up.
In the other 2 counties, (Granite/Powell) they receive maybe one or two complaints each year, even though all counties have weeds/junk/cleanup issues.
2007 Clean –up week in May:
45 individuals requested pick-ups of white goods (large appliances, furniture, etc)
Local landfill was open 3-5 Wed. – Friday and Saturday morning.
Gas cards were offered to individuals taking loads to Butte/Rocker landfill
Adopt-a-lot: volunteers and organizations adopted over 20 different areas.
Changes for 2008
Karen will call first meeting Feb. 2008 ( need to start earlier to expand efforts and include all who are interested in helping)
Saturday hours = “All Day Open” at our class III landfill, as the ½ day was not enough Keep Wed. – Fri. 3-5 pm open
Keep ‘gas cards’ to those Anaconda licenses who take loads to Butte/Rocker landfill – class I (collect name & address next year for additional drawings)
Ask ‘Grumpy Old Men’ group & others to help monitor at our landfill
Use paid employees to unload, due to liability
Keep pick up by County – 45 pick-ups in 2007/white goods/furniture