NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — If you had limbs come down over the weekend, you can take them to the same places that have been available with the earlier storm in Hutchinson.
"Obviously, with the storm and the limbs that fell down we realized that it was important to open up the sites that are in the arena and the parking lot in the arena as well as in Carey Park," said Mary Grace Clements with the City of Hutchinson. Those are not manned by city employees right now, but you're able to go in and drop any debris brush and limbs only and we will take it to the the landfill for you."
They don't know yet exactly how long the sites will remain open for.
"It's vital that you continue to work to clear these things off your yards in your area," Clements said. "At some point we will get back to, hopefully soon, that we will get back to what the codes say. We'll be at that point but this is an opportunity to get that done and work through to clean the area from the debris of the storm I know myself I had a couple trees down. I'm lucky it didn't hit my house."
City staff will be taking a look around town to see what is still needed.
"I think the most important thing right now is to assess the needs for the community and we'll make the best decisions for everyone involved," Clements said. "I mean it is a benefit for the residents right now to be able to come in and drop that without having to take to the landfill what we found in the first rendition of this scenario the lines to get into the landfill were were extremely long so this does expedite the process for the residents so right now we're going to assume that it's going to be a couple days, if we need to extend that, we will."
The original date of return to regular enforcement was to be July 1. A new date has not been set yet.
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