Residents of the city of Clinton will soon see changes in the city’s garbage collection schedule. At the November meeting of Clinton City Council, City Manager Frank Stovall introduced the idea of changes to the schedules for the Sanitation Division of the Department of Public Works. At Monday night’s meeting he formally presented the idea to council and recommended that council approve the new schedules.
Stovall explained that currently routes are run five days per week by the city’s garbage truck, 2 grapple trucks to pick up debris and a vacuum truck to collect leaves during the fall and winter and grass clippings during the spring and summer. Operating on that schedule, he said, allows no down time so that the vehicles can undergo preventative maintenance. He proposed changes that will allow for that maintenance and free up employees for other duties.
Those changes include going from a 5 days per week schedule to a 4 days per week schedule for garbage pickup as well as debris pick up and altering the schedule for vacuum truck to every other week except during leaf season (mid October to mid February).
The change will not affect the frequency of garbage collection but probably will change the day of service for many customers. Instead of having five collection routes there will be four with garbage being collected on one day and debris collected the next.
The idea behind the alternating types of service is that when the garbage truck collects your household garbage they can long the presence of yard debris so that the grapple truck is aware of it when they make their pass the next day.
After much discussion council eventually voted to approve the changes as recommended.
The new schedules will be implemented on January 4th, 2016. Within a few days from now the schedules will be posted on the city’s web site: www.cityofclintonsc.com