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The change to front curbside trash collection with collector-provided trash containers continues to prompt phone calls to the Carthage Public Works Department.
Interim Public Works Director Zeb Carney, attending his first Carthage City Council Public Works Committee meeting since the death of long-time director Chad Wampler, said Allied Waste Inc. is working on the problems, straightening out issues with containers and addressing other issues with the new service, which began on Oct. 1.
He said the company hopes to have all the proper sized polycarts, the new containers residents have to use to leave trash at the curb for the collector, at all homes and businesses in Carthage by the end of the week.
Carney said many of the calls have been from seniors who received the 94-gallon polycarts and wanted the 65-gallon containers reserved for seniors.
Carney said handicapped individuals could call Allied Waste at the phone number on the instructions left with each polycart to make arrangements for their individual disability.
“A few people have called and said thanks for the new service and that’s good,” Carney said. “We’ve also come across some businesses and people that were receiving trash service and not being billed.”
Carney said people need to call Allied Waste to make arrangements for collection of bulky items and that collection still takes place on Friday.
City Administrator Tom Short said the city was still waiting to hear from the Missouri Department of Transportation regarding railroad issues left over from the past summer.
Short said the city was sticking to its position that it would oppose closing a railroad crossing at an alley near Elm Street and would not help make changes to the crossing at River Street just south of Highway 96 until the Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad came talked to the city about proposed changes to the Oak Street bridge.
The city wants to rebuild the Oak Street bridge, commonly known as the “Whee Bridge,” using city money and state grant money, but Short said the original cost of the project, pegged at about $234,000, ballooned to more than $500,000 when the changes demanded by the railroad were worked in.
He said the city can’t afford to make those changes and while the state is holding on to the grant money already earmarked for the bridge rebuild, it can’t hold on to the money forever.
The change to front curbside trash collection with collector-provided trash containers continues to prompt phone calls to the Carthage Public Works Department.
Interim Public Works Director Zeb Carney, attending his first Carthage City Council Public Works Committee meeting since the death of long-time director Chad Wampler, said Allied Waste Inc. is working on the problems, straightening out issues with containers and addressing other issues with the new service, which began on Oct. 1.
He said the company hopes to have all the proper sized polycarts, the new containers residents have to use to leave trash at the curb for the collector, at all homes and businesses in Carthage by the end of the week.
Carney said many of the calls have been from seniors who received the 94-gallon polycarts and wanted the 65-gallon containers reserved for seniors.
Carney said handicapped individuals could call Allied Waste at the phone number on the instructions left with each polycart to make arrangements for their individual disability.
“A few people have called and said thanks for the new service and that’s good,” Carney said. “We’ve also come across some businesses and people that were receiving trash service and not being billed.”
Carney said people need to call Allied Waste to make arrangements for collection of bulky items and that collection still takes place on Friday.
City Administrator Tom Short said the city was still waiting to hear from the Missouri Department of Transportation regarding railroad issues left over from the past summer.
Short said the city was sticking to its position that it would oppose closing a railroad crossing at an alley near Elm Street and would not help make changes to the crossing at River Street just south of Highway 96 until the Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad came talked to the city about proposed changes to the Oak Street bridge.
The city wants to rebuild the Oak Street bridge, commonly known as the “Whee Bridge,” using city money and state grant money, but Short said the original cost of the project, pegged at about $234,000, ballooned to more than $500,000 when the changes demanded by the railroad were worked in.
He said the city can’t afford to make those changes and while the state is holding on to the grant money already earmarked for the bridge rebuild, it can’t hold on to the money forever.
