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City: Hurricane debris first round half cleared
Work expected to continue through November
W 110116 STORM DEBRIS
A truck dumps a load of storm debris at a Bulloch County-owned site Tuesday.
After working overtime and with added personnel for more than three weeks, Statesboro’s yard waste crews are half done with the first round of removing Hurricane Matthew debris piled along the streets and rights of way, city officials said Tuesday. “It looks like we’re done with about 50 percent of the first round around the city,” Deputy City Manager Robert Cheshire told City Council, “and obviously it’s taking extra time because of the type of debris that we’re dealing with, which in some cases is entire trees that we have to cut up and remove.” The crews have hauled away the vegetative debris on four of the city’s eight sanitation routes.
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