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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:14 PM CDT
Mattoon leaf collection rounds start Monday

Staff Report

MATTOON — City crews will start annual leaf collection efforts Monday.

The schedule starts in the northwest corner of Mattoon, bordered by Western Avenue and 19th Street, and then continues Tuesday with the northeast corner, Wednesday in the southeast and Thursday within the southwest corner. Public Works crews will backtrack on collections on Friday.

This will be the weekly schedule for leaf collection into December, said Mattoon Public Works Director David Wortman.

Residents must place leaves for city collection in recyclable paper bags, which are available at many local retailers. The bags are necessary because the loads will be taken to the city yard waste facility at Logan and Shelby avenues, officials said. Bags should be placed within 10 feet of street curbs but not in the streets. Leaves raked into piles will not be collected.

Also, residents can take leaves to the yard waste facility from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Monday in coming weeks. The time might change due to darkness coming earlier, especially after the fall time change on Nov. 1, Wortman said.

Leaves can be taken to the yard waste site in any containers, but only recyclable bags can be left at the site due to requirements on mulching. Individual mulching is also an option, but burning leaves is illegal in Mattoon.

For more information, city residents may call 235-5171.

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citizen of Mattoon wrote on Oct 15, 2009 8:24 AM:

" Why did the city sell off the leaf vac's? They said at one time that they were to expensive to opperate. If the trucks are moving around town anyway and the employees are doing one thing or another. Then the only cost of operating is the cost of fuel.

This city has some serious problems in the way it is operated. It goes much deeper than how the street dept. is miss handeled, such as the water system (the water is not drinkable at times), the lack of cooperation with the city nuisance officer, and the fact that if someone threatens to sue the city they back off as if the offending party has the plague. "