The Huron City Commission received final reports on two community clean up efforts. Solid Waste Superintendent Dale Fortin says the city extended a waste tire collection to try and use more of a 100-thousand dollar, 100-percent matching grant awarded to Huron by the State of South Dakota….
Fortin says the city pleaded for residents bring tires and failed to utilize almost 46-thousand 700-dollars. Fortin says Huron got permission from the State to allow the City of Miller to add tires to the collection…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/11/cleanup2.mp3|titles=cleanup2]Fortin also had numbers from the annual Countywide Household Harzardous Waste Collection held October 20th at the State Fairgrounds…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/11/cleanup3.mp3|titles=cleanup3]And while the Commission was on the topic of cleaning up Commissioner Jan Manolis announced changes for garbage collection this week due to Veteran’s Day on Friday…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/11/cleanup4.mp3|titles=cleanup4]Manolis says the yard waste collection will end for the year when Green Containers begin freezing to the ground. Fortin says the Department of Agriculture did not have numbers from collection of pesticides during the hazardous waste collection, says he noticed many of the containers being dropped off.