An estimated one-third of the city’s tree canopy was damaged during last month's ice storm. Where do all those branches go?
Austin Resource Recovery, the city department that is managing the residential cleanup, has about 70 city and contracted crews collecting yard debris from curbs.to make a request to have their debris picked up. So far, the city has received about 39,000 requests — mostly from areas west of MoPac.
ARR expects to complete a first pass through all Austin neighborhoods in the next seven to 10 days, according to Austin Resource Recovery Division Manager Amy Slagle. She said second and third passes are expected to be completed by April 30. "This has been a massive and extensive effort here in the city of Austin," Snipes said."[It's] much more debris than we've collected at any other time for any other storm events or any other situations that we've had to deal with in terms of recovery efforts."trucks will drop off the collected debris at an intermediate point, like the Circle C Metropolitan Park, Bolm District Park or Old Manor Road. Those are not public drop-off sites.
Ian Moede, an environmental program coordinator with Austin Water, said the plant uses the ground-up yard trimmings from ARR as a bulking agent in its composting operation. The facility mixes about one part wastewater sludge from Austin Water treatment plants with two parts ground-up yard waste to make a compost they call Dillo Dirt.
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