Litterers should care for the sites
Tue, 04/21/2020 - 10:38am
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Litterers should care for the sites
This photo was taken at the Rice Town Hall garbage collection site at Zerkel and unfortunately, it’s such a common sight that it won’t surprise many people reading this. There are a couple of reasons it should concern us all in rural Clearwater County, however.
First, this is the local town hall property in one of our townships and most of the rural garbage collection sites are located at town halls. This isn’t how people want their town hall properties treated, and if Town Boards decide they’re fed up with the mess around their property and tell me they want it removed, that’s it, the garbage collection there is gone. This kind of abuse could bring an end to the rural garbage collection system we’re so enjoying for its convenience and relatively low cost.
Secondly, this guy is a thief and he stole your money! Transporting this stuff to the County’s only proper disposal site south of Bagley is the responsibility of the person disposing it, not all of us, but we will pay for a county employee along with a truck and trailer to go around and pick it all up. In my book that makes him a thief. If caught, this is a clear violation of the County’s solid waste ordinance, a misdemeanor offense, specifically Article VIII, B., item 2 which reads:
Disposal of any of the following items at any rural canister site is prohibited:
a.household hazardous waste,
b.industrial waste
c.major appliances
d.furniture
e.animal carcasses or carcass parts
f.automotive or machinery parts
g.tires
h.large wood or metal items, and/or
i.yard waste.
There is a $100 reward offered by the County for information that leads to a conviction for such a violation, so if you see it occur get all the information you can including time, date, vehicle license number and best of all a photo. The County will prosecute these offenses if we can get the evidence. Thank you for your time and attention.
Dan Hecht, Administrator
Clearwater County Environmental Services