GAINESVILLE - A weekend Christmas plus Hall County compactor sites closed Sunday because of the snow fall has made for very busy days for the trash handlers.
Ralph Waters at the Gould Road Compactor site off McEver Road Extension said his site is just now catching up and he needed the assistance of eight road maintenance officers and eight inmates to handle the influx of garbage and trash.
"You couldn't handle it by yourself, those guys there have been outrageous to help us," Waters said.
Although the compactor sites closed because of the historic Christmas snow fall that made driving hazardous, it was and is illegal to dump the trash and garbage at the gate.
"I tell you what, it's been terrible," Waters said. "It was piled all the way to the tops of the gates Monday morning, plumb up to the top of them."
There was still a lot of holiday related trash coming into compactor sites Tuesday, so much that operators switched over to dump trucks instead of filling compactors to haul it off quicker.
"We're getting two or three times the amount we normally get," Waters said. "They take it off and then back another truck in."
Waters is hoping things get back to normal at the compactor site by next week, but then New Year's Eve and New Year's Day is coming up this weekend. Hopefully Gainesville and Hall County won't see another historic holiday snow fall. None is predicted.
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October 18th, 2024
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