Residents encouraged to help keep city clean

By Trisha Maldonado

Douglas Dispatch
Published/Last Modified on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:04 PM MDT


The City of Douglas is asking for your cooperation in complying with City of Douglas ordinances DMC Title 8.32.140 & 8.16.


These two ordinances pertain to alley maintenance and the proper manner in which garbage must be prepared for pick up by City sanitation employees stated Scott Lehman City of Douglas Code Enforcement Officer.

Residents are responsible for maintaining from the rear property line to the center of the alley and from their front property line to the edge of the pavement of adjacent streets. These areas must be clear of weeds and garbage at all times.

Garbage must be securely bagged then placed in garbage cans no larger than 32 gallon. Lehman advices residents to use regular garbage bags instead of grocery store bags for securing trash. Garbage cans must not weigh more than 65 pounds. Lehman also advices home owners to label your trash cans with home address.

“The biggest problem the city is seeing is containing garbage,” he said. “Animals get into the garbage and scatter it around.”

‘Your participation as a Douglas resident is irreplaceable in keeping our City a clean and good place to live”, Lehman said.

A special pickup with the City of Douglas can be arranged at a flat rate fee of $15 per pickup plus the cost of transfer station fees. If you have any question regarding garbage pick and or special pickups, call (520) 417-7310.

 

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Comments

    An Idea wrote on Apr 18, 2012 1:42 PM:

    " Hey why not have all those juvenile's doing graffiti do community work. This will help the city of Douglas look better. "

    Aquiles wrote on Apr 7, 2012 11:20 PM:

    " I have an idea...why don't we form work crews of all of Douglas residents...and clean and paint all the homes that look "shabby"..which is about 75% of all the homes...it sounds like a crazy idea...but it can be done...how about it...new mayor?...great idea!......no? "

    just a thought wrote on Mar 31, 2012 1:17 PM:

    " I think we need to do away with the plstic bags ..and what happen to the street sweeper ? "

    Anonymous wrote on Mar 29, 2012 10:23 PM:

    " This is what the liberals ignore, all towns near the border are the same. Its not just coincidence. "

    Megan wrote on Mar 27, 2012 3:29 PM:

    " It is great Douglas has these laws about keeping certain areas clean but what about other areas like the empty lot next to the new hotel it is full of trash bags from walmart stuck in all the trees garbage from mcdonolds etc and drive around and look all over we have a really nasty dirty city with trash all over is someone going to clean it up???? KEEP AMERICA CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL ( and Douglas ) "

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