Casper currently has five collection sites for residents who want to get rid of tree branches downed by Friday’s powerful storm.
For people who don’t want to haul away their own debris, the city will collect branches during the next extra collection trash day. Branches must be cut into lengths 5 feet or less and placed in a neat pile on the curb.
Residents who aren’t physically able to collect branches should reach out to volunteers in the community, City Manager John Patterson said. Church groups and some businesses have been assisting people.
Colin Taylor was one of the lucky ones. He was taking a nap Sunday, waiting for the Denver Broncos game to start, when he heard a knock at his door. It was a neighbor, asking if a group of men outside could clear his lawn.
Taylor looked out and saw about a dozen men standing around a 30-foot flatbed trailer, he recounted Monday while at the senior center in Casper. They were from Halliburton. Taylor happily agreed and the men set to work.
“They had me cleared up by 3:30 p.m.,” he said, or quick enough for him to catch most of the Broncos game.
The city has a grinder at Mike Sedar Park and is trying to get two more so it could rotate the machines among the various sites, Patterson said. He expects to keep the sites open as long as people keep showing up with branches. That could be a couple of weeks, he estimated.
The open collection sites are:
- South Mike Sedar Park
- Iris Street at Valley Drive
- Along Bryan Stock Trail, north of K Street
- Corner of Wyoming Boulevard near 21st Street
- Balefill Compost Yard (open 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday – Saturday).
The small sites that have recent capacity and are now CLOSED:
- The Ag Extension Building on Fairgrounds Road (community garden area)
- Viking Court (cul-de-sac area off Blackmore Road, near intersection with Wyoming Boulevard)
- YMCA area, near 15th Street and Wolcott Street
- Wyoming Boulevard near Fairside Road
- McKinley and 25th Street
- North Casper Recycling Depots
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