Cleanup days scheduled

Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
 
Thanks to Lacey Sloan, manager of the Weston County Natural Resource District, people living in four different neighborhoods in Newcastle can participate in a free community cleanup on designated days. 
Volunteers signed up through Sloan, with the help of the Newcastle City Council and city crews, will bring two roll-offs for household waste and one roll-off for metal to each of the four neighborhoods on different days in September. People living within these neighborhoods deposit their excess waste in the roll-off in their neighborhood to help clean up the community. 
On Sept. 7, the Sheridan Street area will have access to roll-offs placed near 125 Sheridan St. Nickie Jensen will be the volunteer manning the roll-offs during the cleanup. 
The Dow Park area will participate in the cleanup with the help of volunteer Ellen Lock on Sept. 14. The roll-offs will be located near 211 Forest Hill Way. 
The neighborhood near Woodstock Street and City Shop Road will have its cleanup on Sept. 21. The roll-offs will be placed near Woodstock Street. Brooke Weigel has volunteered to oversee the dumpsters.
The last neighborhood with volunteers for the cleanup is Gray Addition on Sept. 28. Roll-offs will be located at the Four-Square Lighthouse Church in the gravel parking lot at 1525 S. Summit Ave. Linda Hunt is the volunteer managing the roll-offs there. 
According to Sloan, no hazardous waste will be accepted during the neighborhood cleanups and any items listed in the next paragraph should be taken to Hazardous Waste Day on Aug. 31 in the old Shopko parking lot. 
Hazardous waste items include paint other than latex, oil or oil byproducts, pesticides, lawn and garden chemicals, print ink, copy machine fluid, transformers or transformer oil, acids, contaminated dirt, asbestos and byproducts, cleaning chemicals, ammonia, paint thinner, pool chemicals, solvents, drilling chemicals, acetone, carcinogens and explosive material. 
If anyone has questions regarding hazardous waste, they can contact Sloan at 479-970-3727. 
Other items not accepted during the cleanup include concrete, dirt, brick or stones, which may be taken to the city maintenance yard. No used oil, white goods containing CFGs (refrigerators and air-conditioning units), lead acid batteries and tires larger than 12-by-20 will be accepted. They can be taken to the Newcastle landfill. 
Oil filters will be accepted as long as they are drained. Latex paint must be dried, and any bulk liquid in containers larger than 5 gallons must be in a sealed container mixed with an absorbent. 
Treated wood that is newer and commercial or industrial waste will also not be accepted, according to Sloan. 
Roll-off containers must not be overflowing at the end of the cleanup day, and one foot of space from the top must be left to allow for acceptable and easier hauling. Failure to comply with these rules and regulations will result in no community cleanup days being allowed next year, according to Sloan.