Landfill amnesty days this weekend

The City of Le Mars is offering a free dumping for certain items at the Plymouth County Landfill June 5, 6 and 7.

For these Spring Clean Up days, the city is declaring an amnesty from the landfill disposal cost for up to 1,000 pounds per household of "throw away" material per household. The garbage must be delivered to the landfill. The City of Le Mars will pay the bill for that garbage, and it will not billed to the household.

Only residential properties are eligible for the three-day amnesty.

Commercial or industrial properties will still have to pay their dumping bill those days.

The city will not be picking up the items left on the curb. Residents are urged not to place items in front of their houses at the curbside.

Each residential household must make their own arrangements for hauling waste to the Plymouth County Landfill during the three-day clean up. They can do the hauling themselves or use friends, neighbors or any hauling firm of their choosing.

Fall clean-up days with landfill amnesty are set for September 18, 19 and 20, 2008.

ITEMS INCLUDED IN THIS AMNESTY

1 . Furniture: couches, chairs, mattresses, carpet, padding, garden hose, televisions, humidifiers, computers and monitors.

2. Construction and demolition: Wooden items such as fence post, scrap lumber etc. Also items normal to construction or demolition

such as windows, doors, sinks, toilets, storms and screens. (No concrete)

3. Metal: bikes, mowers, metal post, wire, swings, gutter, bed springs, bed frames etc. (This does not include white goods like microwaves)

ITEMS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS AMNESTY

1. Normal household garbage and yard waste: cardboard, paper, books magazines and other recyclable products. These items can be put in blue bags and picked up by Van's Sanitation on their normal routes during recycling weeks. Yard waste, trees and branches may be hauled to the city disposal site at Riverview Park, Highway 3 West on Saturdays from 10:00 A.M. to 2.-00 P.M.

2. Tires: These must be individually hauled to the Landfill site at the residential household's expense

3. Hazardous waste: paints and thinners, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, batteries, fertilizer, fuels, oils, etc. Please call the Plymouth County Landfill (546-6071) to make an appointment.

4. White goods: air conditioners, microwaves, washers, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, fluorescent lights, hot water heaters, furnaces, dishwashers, dehumidifiers, ranges, ovens, trash compactors and other cooling units.

Items not included in this Amnesty can be delivered to the Landfill any time during the year during their regular business hours and will be billed to the residential household.

Plymouth County Landfill Hours:

Monday - Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

1st and 3rd Saturday 8 a.m. to noon