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Falling leaves putting city's new vacuum trucks to the test
Oct. 29, 2009 5:43 pm
The volume of falling leaves and the rainy weather are putting the city's new leaf vacuum trucks to the test, Mark Jones, the city's solid-waste superintendent reports.
The new vacuum trucks are scheduled to be in neighborhoods the same day during the week as weekly garbage collection. However, the trucks are a little behind schedule as they now, at the peak of the leaf-collection season, are vacuuming up 160 tons of leaves per day, Jones says.
He says the trucks will return the following morning to finish up neighborhoods that they didn't complete by dusk the day before.
The leaf collection service - which costs households $3 a year - scheduled to run until December 11, weather permitting.
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