Sedona AZ (June 15, 2014) – The City of Sedona, in cooperation with the Sedona Fire Department, is offering Sedona area residents the opportunity to dispose of their yard waste and flammable vegetation. This is also an opportunity to clean up any debris related to drainage maintenance prior to monsoon season. Shrubs and growth may reduce the capacity of washes or drainage ditches, and any loose trimmings and yard waste may impede proper flows. The City of Sedona Maintenance Yard, located at 2070 Contractors Road, will accept yard waste during the cleanup event starting Friday, June 27 through Sunday, June 29, 2014, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Creating a defensible space within 30 feet of your home can greatly reduce the risk of a wildfire. Tall, dry grasses provide a path for fire that can lead directly to your house. By removing dry grasses, leaves, pine needles from your roof and gutters, excess growth, and dead leaves and branches, it decreases the flammability potential. Pruning tree limbs so the lowest limb is between 6’ to10’ from the ground reduces “ladder fuels.”
Yard debris, including brush, tree and shrub trimmings (limbs, trunks), bagged leaves, and pine needles (no cactus trimmings, please) may be dropped off during this event. In an effort to reduce the spread of noxious weeds, leaves, grasses and pine needles must be bagged. Appliances, hazardous materials, garbage, mattresses, and other household waste will not be accepted.
Visit www.sedonafire.org to learn how to make your property safe from wildfire or call the Sedona Fire District at 282-6800 to schedule a free home assessment. For more information on the cleanup event, please contact the City of Sedona at (928) 204-7111.
In addition, the City of Sedona encourages you to be prepared and sign up now to receive emergency alerts from the City and Coconino or Yavapai County, depending on which county you live in. To sign up, please click on the red link “Sign Up For Emergency Alerts” located on the homepage at www.SedonaAZ.gov. It is important to sign up for both the City and a county, as there may be emergency notifications sent by the City that are not a county issue and vice versa.
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Highway 89A Forensics,
Do you ever wonder what is in those blue ADOT Adopt-A-Highway litter bags?
The forensics of the contents of 100 out of 221 bags of litter processed from Highway 89A by the citizens on Lower Oak Creek Estates, Cornville AZ:
1 Plastic bucket,
1 Household cleaner bucket,
21 One gallon water bottles,
1 Plastic milk container,
378 Seventeen once water bottles,
2 Plastic vitamin bottles,
146 Sport drinks bottles,
3 Orange drink bottles,
2 One gallon milk bottles,
1 Soap dish,
21 Small plastic milk containers,
1 Plastic cooking oil bottle,
47 Plastic soda bottles,
1 One gallon iced tea bottle,
3 Motor oil containers,
1 Plastic storage bowl,
13 Plastic juice bottle,
97 Plastic cups,
1 Plastic mustard bottle,
1 Plastic peanut butter jar,
27 Coffee cups,
14 Cough syrup bottles,
1 Mayonnaise jar,
1 One gallon laundry bottle,
17 Miscellaneous car debris parts,
116 Plastic mini-shot alcohol bottles,
5 Ice cooler lids,
4 Pint alcohol bottles,
12 Five gallon plastic lids,
5 Muriatic acid containers,
340 Twelve once soda cans,
558 Beer cans,
32 Small Iced tea bottles,
21 Juice cans,
46 Miscellaneous alcohol bottles,
15 Metal cans
1 “Old” oil can
1957 Total Items (but who’s counting?)
This is exactly what tourists come to see. These items accumulated in 3 months time on 14 miles of Highway 89A.
Where is anti-littering being taught in the home and schools? Please let us know.
Gary Chamberlain
Folksville USA
Empowering our youth through
“America the Beautiful & BagReadyJobs”
FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com
Cornville AZ