The Brown County Landfill’s free spring residential cleanup will include a change this year.
Landfill manager Mike Scott told commissioners on Tuesday, March 5 that the cleanup will be April 26 through May 11. That was during a county meeting at the courthouse annex that featured few agenda items.
The change, he said, is that there will be just one drop site in Aberdeen accepting extra items and it will only be set up for one day. In the past, there have been two expanded drop sites in town open for a day and a half.
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 27, residents can drop off batteries, furniture, appliances, electronics, scrap metal, rubble and as many as four car or pickup tires at a drop site near Jensen Rock & Sand two blocks south of the White House Inn on South Fifth Street.
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In the past, extra items have been accepted on both the first Friday afternoon and all of Saturday during the spring cleanup session. In recent years, the second drop site has been at the Brown County Highway Department on Eighth Avenue Northeast. But it will not be operated this year, Scott said.
Tipping fees will be waived at the landfill for the entire spring cleanup for many items, including:
- Paint.
- Trees.
- Shingles.
- Rubble.
- Furniture.
- Waste oil.
- Electronics.
- Appliances.
- Scrap metal.
- Propane tanks.
- Grass and leaves.
- Other miscellaneous waste.
Fees will still be charged for large demolition projects like homes and tree belts and business and commercial waste. Mobile homes are not accepted.
The landfill address is 13225 379th Ave. From the intersection of U.S. Highway 281 and U.S. Highway 12 on the western edge of Aberdeen, that’s 5 miles west and about a mile and two-thirds north. All loads must be covered and secured.
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Commissioners also approved the $13,000 purchase of a used 2006 Oshkosh fire truck for the landfill. It is being bought off of a Federal Surplus Property bid out of Huron. Scott said that, among other things, the landfill uses a fire truck to recirculate wastewater onto trash.
The fire truck has about 7,000 miles and 1,000 hours on it, he said.
In other action, the commission approved matters of routine business and met in executive session to discuss personnel issues.