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Escambia Completes Hurricane Sally Debris Removal; Anything Left Behind Is On You
December 26, 2020
Escambia County has completed Hurricane Sally debris removal; anything left behind now will be the responsibly of the property owner.
Contractors hauled 80,485 loads, collecting 4,221,633 cubic yards of Hurricane Sally generated debris. This equals 660 football fields with debris stacked 3 feet high, or enough debris to fill 91% of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
Any remaining debris or bulk items should be prepared for collection by the resident’s respective waste hauler or residents may dispose items at the Perdido Landfill. The Perdido Landfill will be closed on Friday, January 1 in observance of the New Year’s holiday.
Escambia County will reopen the drop-off recycling site at the Perdido Landfill beginning Tuesday, Dec. 29, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Residents may drop off aluminum and steel cans; plastic bottles and jugs; paper and cardboard for free.
Residents wishing to dispose of organic Christmas trees can do so by simply placing the tree curbside with all decorations, ornaments and any attached tree stands removed. Trees or segments of trees should not be more than six feet in length. Do not place Christmas trees in recycling or garbage containers. For more information, please contact your waste service provider. Christmas trees are typically collected on your normal trash collection day.
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26 Responses to “Escambia Completes Hurricane Sally Debris Removal; Anything Left Behind Is On You”
My debris is still sitting there waiting. They can down our road twice and only picked up one side each time. The other side of the street is still sitting out there waiting.
Team Escambia did a great job. Thank you!
They never picked up in our neighborhood rose ave.i pay taxes too.why are we left with this do what you was paid to do
Many contractors and home owners cleared land that was not hurricane related and set it out and claimed it was Sally debris
Many home owners also called contractors businesses to do remodel jobs that had nothing to do with Sally
The crooks doing this caused honest people to be left behind as even the ones picking up saw what was going on.
Clear 5 acres for a home build..set it out by the road and let FEMA contractors deal with it ..
People on here right now are clearing land still….and complain no one made a pass.
Crooked as a blacksnake ….yet they whine about no pickup. GOOD!
You know who you are on here ….now pay the contractor to haul off the debris you cleared your land for home building….contractors and builders just as crooked.
Sitting up there acting like you dont know anything about that. LOSERS AND ITS FACT!!!!
Hurricane related debris on many less traveled streets and roads was never picked up during the so called first pass…? Did Escambia County had a coordinated cleaning effort using county maps? Did any one person was tasked to check? I don’t think so!!
Bottom line: our county looks dirty and we need more trash pick up on Highway 29, Kingsfield Road and others roadways!
Folks, our County still looks very messy after Hurricane Sally, let’s work together to clean it up. We can make our country beautiful again!
Someone seems to have forgotten Creighton Road between Spanish Trail and 9th Ave. I’ve seen some of the debris there since right after the hurricane and there’s a lot.
I guess they did what they could for $64 million.
great they never came down Bogie road
We are still waiting for them to pick up for the first time. My community has not had the first pick up for debris caused by the hurricane. The home debris that was damaged by the hurricane that was damaged has not been picked up, but the tree and shrub has been picked up. District 3. I will have to call Representative May.
They did a great job in my neighborhood. I also saw a lot of that “extra” debris after their first run as well. One house had drywall, toilet, cabinets in its pile even though there was no sign of damage to the home. Roof was on no blue tarps and it wasn’t in an area that flooded.
I’ve seen plenty of storm debris left on the roadside for months. It’s not all gone or been picked up.
I am not surprised at all!! I live in Ensley and have contacted waste management more than twice about a small pile of old privacy fencing that has been sitting for nearly 3 months now,the lady who answers the phone told me a week before the pickup was ending to call back this past Monday if the final run did not pick ours up, and of course they didnt along with all of my neighborhood. I was told by this lady that waste management would contact me about the issue, they have not. Now we have to figure out how to dispose of the old fencing ourselves? I suppose if we burn it and end up with a fine ill pass that fine over to waste management, then maybe they will respond.
I’m still cleaning debris from Sally and putting it in the swales. It’s as big as the last two piles the county picked up. Can I call for another pickup when I finally finish?
The county never picked up sally debris from my house even though we followed the rules of having it out by December first and now the county says it’s on me? I saw my neighbor put debris from his tree business several times and it always got picked up.
What the hell is the deal. I am beginning to think I’m paying taxes for nothing and I will not vote for Any incumbents at the next election
I appreciate the work that Escambia County did to clean up the debris, I only wish the residents has put in half as much effort.
The main roads seemed to be cleared, the side roads, not so much. Maybe we should just push the pile out to the main road!
Well, I have a lot of tree damage and have been working a lot of overtime due to my job. Now I have Covid , so my question is if I continue to place debris by the road am I going to get fined or have to pay piles of money to get my stuff hauled away. I have trees to cut down, cut up . Leaves to rake up.
If they wouldn’t have been busy picking up none hurricane related debris maybe they wouldn’t have missed anyone. But the main thing is take responsibility for your own yard and community and clean up
they did a good job BUT I am 65 and have over an acre and I am doing all this clean up by myself. I have most of it done. there is still a large part of a 40 foot tree down that I can not cut up or move by myself. I did what I could with a pole saw. I still have about a 100 ft section that is left to clean up. I requested help right after the storm and some people did come out. they cleaned up a small corner of my back yard and then moved on to the rest of the neighborhood and left me to deal with the rest. I won’t ask for help again. my neighbors, who have other household members to help them didn’t ask for help and they got help. I asked for help and I live alone and got very little help.
Should the county take some of their FEMA money and do a FULL sweep of what’s out there. Painted orange or not. Clean our county
Saw lots of debris stacked up that had not much to do with the hurricane.
Some places it looked like someone thought this a good time to clean out the old storage shed or get rid of some worn furniture.
Even saw boats and things in piles which were never part of what was to be picked up by the contractors.
Saw a good bit of GREEN leaves piled high where trees were trimmed and one place under construction where a healthy tree had been cut down weeks after the storm and was cleared to put the foundation….not storm damage just trying to slip in under the wire.
Thank you! I think they did a great job.
The trucks done what they wanted! I watched them load there trucks with 3pine tops per trailer and called that a load! Then they would drive 45-50 mph down a 25mph road ! Yea they were doing what they wanted . Problem was they were contracted through a local co. (Roads inc) and they have problems building roads maybe this is why they cant finish the projects on time and on budget !!!
Yeah they picked up what they felt like. I still have debris waiting for removal and it’ll sit there until they do something with it!
They never came back to my street. I’ve had debris in place for weeks. Now I have to get rid of it myself. That’s a bunch of baloney. I guess some areas count more than others.
I’ve been here for a lot of storms. This is by far the poorest effort ever produced by the county. Just drive around town, there is debris everywhere. But we’re all done here, it’s on you now. Pathetic.