With the high water gone and cleanup operations under way, garbage continues to build at the county transfer station, which has seen volumes double since the disaster.
LeMay Enterprises, operating the transfer station in Aberdeen, had accepted 400 tons of flood-related waste since Tuesday from the Aberdeen cleanup alone. By Wednesday, LeMay had seven 20- and 30-yard dumpsters deployed throughout the city all week long.
On Friday and Saturday, Hometown Sanitation, servicing the City of Hoquiam, collected an estimated 110 tons of flood-related waste using 19 30-yard dumpsters and four filled garbage trucks, including what was dumped during an organized collection on Saturday at Olympic Stadium.
“I was there to see everything come through there,” Hometown Sanitation Co-owner Brian Smith said. “It was sad — some people lost everything from their houses.”
For all of Grays Harbor, LeMay had received about 300 tons of waste per day, compared to an expected 160 tons before the flood.
“We’ve gotten a little over double our normal amount,” Site Manager Paul Dionne said on Monday.
To help tackle the cleanup, LeMay drivers picked up double during their routes on Monday to make up for missed service during the flood on Jan. 5. Two roll-off drivers were dedicated to the Aberdeen cleanup and an additional truck was making stops throughout the city to follow in the wake of cleanup crews all week long.
“That’s over and above our normal operations as well,” Dionne said. “It’s been a varied attack on the garbage.”
The garbage situation is not over either.
“I bet you we finish at 450 tons for Aberdeen, and that’s just the official cleanup,” he said. “We have people dropping off on their own and there’s no way to track if that’s coming from the flood.
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