The Annual Spring Clean-Up
Week is not Intended for Commercial Users.
Free Acceptance - Separate
by materials:
- Household Trash
- Furniture
- Yard Trash
- Appliances (including refrigeration
units)
- Tires (limit 8 per household)
- Scrap Metal (boat trailers
ok if cut into sections no longer than 6 feet)
- Brush, pallets, compostable
wood
- All fuel tanks (ends must
be cut off and tank cleaned and free of oil residue)
Do not bring Hazardous Waste
to Spring Clean-Up. Spring Clean-up is NOT for Hazardous waste
disposal or for food waste, it is for residential trash which
has accumulated since our last clean up.
Curbside Collection is available
for City residents
Spring Clean-up trash will
be picked up by City Crews only for City residents if the trash
is put out at curbside on your regularly scheduled garbage collection
day. (All other Ketchikan residents must take their trash to
the landfill).
City residents are asked to
follow these guidelines:
- Construction debris and oil
tanks will not be picked up at curbside.
- Only put items at curbside
that are listed in the FREE category
- Spring Clean-up trash must
be curbside and separate from regular food garbage
- Only 10 cubic yards of trash
allowed (size of large dump truck) per household.
- Hazardous materials will not
be picked up.
- Be considerate of your neighbor's
property and do not block driveways or sidewalks.
- Brush must be bundled and
tied in lengths no longer than 4 feet.
Do not bring junk vehicles
or major portions of vehicles to Spring Clean-Up. To dispose
of a junk vehicle, please call Ketchikan Gateway Borough, 247-5541.
Some Landfill Guidelines .
. . .
When entering the landfill,
the single most important information that can be obtained is
the weight of the waste being disposed. In addition to weighing,
waste being disposed will be screen for prohibited wastes, record
vehicle entry, and direct customers to the proper areas.
According to the spring clean-up
week announcement, vehicles will also be screened for violations
such as:
- Uncovered loads
- Liquid leaking from vehicles
- Overweight vehicles
- Safety violations....
The announcement states that
these violations are "serious for the people living along
collection and delivery routes. Violators will be turned away
until the problem is corrected."
