Page 11 - Jupiter Spotlight - August '20

Jupiter Spotlight, Page 11
Commissioner’s Update

Yard Sense Palm Beach County’s Solid Waste Authority (SWA)
recommends that your trimming include cutting back trees
By Commissioner and weak branches that could contact buildings. Also, thin
Hal Valeche your foliage so that the wind can flow freely through the
Hurricane season signals branches, decreasing the chance that trees or plants will
a time for planning and uproot. Keep in mind that in the unincorporated areas,
preparation. Staying vigilant six cubic yards is the maximum amount of yard waste
can help us minimize allowable at the curb, and that major land clearing or In 2017, Hurricane Irma left almost 3 million cubic
property damage and make tree removal debris is not eligible for collection at the yards of vegetative debris on the ground, which took
our neighborhoods safer in curb and must be taken to a SWA facility for disposal. If three months and cost more than $30 million to collect
the event of a storm. you hire a lawn care or tree trimming service, consider and dispose. If we can keep up with regular yard and tree
If you have not already contracting with them to haul away the debris. If you live maintenance, it will help lessen the amount of debris that
done so, now is the time to complete your major vegetation within a municipality, check with your city officials to must be collected and deposited following a storm and
and tree trimming. Once a storm threatens, it is too late. confirm what their collection policies require. shorten the time of recovery efforts.
Haulers cannot guarantee debris pickup when a storm is When you have the vegetation squared away, clean SWA coordinates with the Emergency Operations
approaching because there is not enough staff, equipment your yard of any items that could pose a danger in Center to monitor a storm’s potential path to decide
or time to collect and dispose of large amounts of debris; hurricane force winds such as old lumber or broken lawn if facilities have to close or if they have to suspend
and, as wind speeds increase, trucks cannot safely travel the furniture and place it at the curb on your bulk waste collection services. The authority offers hurricane
roads. collection day. information to help residents understand best practices,
addressing priorities after a storm passes, and other
valuable tips at: https://swa.org/408/For-Residents.
Additionally, Palm Beach County’s Cooperative
Extension Service provides guidance on trimming and
pruning techniques, restoring trees after a hurricane and
designing a more wind-resistant landscape. Links to
this information, as well as phone numbers for asking
hurricane-related and other landscaping questions, are
available at http://discover.pbcgov.org/coextension/
horticulture/Pages/Hurricanes-and-Your-Landscape.aspx.
I hope that these tips will help you stay prepared. For
overall hurricane preparedness recommendations, visit
www.ReadyPBC.org.
TIGER SPIRIT TaE Kwon Do As always, if there is any way I can assist you, please
contact me at (561) 355-2201 or by email at hvaleche@
pbcgov.org. Remember, stay safe and be prepared.
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Like Mecca, the Canadian Rockies are a place that
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