Delmont readies for borough-wide spring cleaning
Delmont Borough has its spring cleaning all planned out.
The weekend of April 25-26 will see the annual borough-wide cleanup take place, with Dumpsters on hand for residents to make drop-offs, but the Delmont Visionary Committee also will patrol borough streets with volunteers picking up trash.
“We’ve got trash bags and other supplies from PennDOT and we’re hoping to get people signed up ahead of time,” said committee member Vicki Walters.
The street cleanup will happen in conjunction with the Great American Clean-Up, a project spearheaded by national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful.
Councilman Dennis Urban said he worked with Republic Services to coordinate both cleanup efforts on the same weekend.
“Republic didn’t want to have to come back an additional day to pick up trash bags,” Urban said. “And they were also concerned about their people picking up trash bags along Route 66.”
Typically, Great American Clean-Up participants place trash in special bags and leave it for pick-up on the roadside. But with a high volume of traffic moving regularly along the four lanes of Route 66 running through Delmont, Urban and Republic officials thought it would be best to have those bags placed elsewhere.
“We’re asking the visionary committee folks to bring their bags up the borough cleanup site, and Republic can pick everything up at once,” Urban said.
For more, or to volunteer, see Delmont1.wixsite.com/delmontvisionarycomm, the committee’s Facebook page or email delmontvisionarycommittee@gmail.com.
Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.
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