City Wide Cleanup

Dear Residents;

Spring is here and the City’s gearing up for the annual “City Wide Clean Up”. This annual event is help in conjunction with Franklin County’s free “Communities” landfill weekend (free roll-off dumping is April 16th thru April 19th) and is scheduled for Saturday April 19th. Again, we’d like to encourage all of our citizens to participate in the clean up and make our city a cleaner, safer and even more beautiful place to live.

Beginning Wednesday, April 16th thru April 19th at 3:00pm, the City will have large roll off dumpsters available at the public works department parking lot located at 730 S Main Street to accommodate your trash and salvage items. There will also be a designated area for a brush pile, tree limbs and yard debris (just during City Wide Cleanup). No dumping on Sunday.

The County transfer station has provided us with a list of restricted items that you will not be allowed to bring to the City’s dumping location. These restricted items are: Boats, tires, oil, gas tanks, burned trash residue, liquids and household hazardous waste, such as paint, batters, chemicals, etc.

Household hazardous waste, such as paint, batteries, chemicals, etc. are collected daily at no charge at the Franklin County Noxious Weed Dept. 2017 S Elm Street, Ottawa, KS 785-229-3170 Monday thru Friday 7:00am-3:00pm. The transfer station will open to the public on Friday, April 25th from 8:00am to 8:00pm and Saturday, April 26th from 8:00am to 12:30 m for free dumping such as trash, brush, scrap metal, and construction/demolition materials.

If you are unable to take your trash and salvage to the public works department roll off area, you may call City Hall at 883-2296, Mon-Fri 8:00am – 12:00pm, 1:00pm – 5:00pm and request assistance. The city staff will compile a list and on Saturday April 19th, volunteers will pick up trash and salvage items that have been placed on the curb. We’d like to limit curb service to residents who are unable to deliver their items to the dumpsters provided at the public works parking lot. Our volunteers are also asking that you please have your items out to the curb either Friday night or early Saturday morning (no later than 8:00am) to help them expedite the process.

As we go into summer, let’s continue to make every effort to make Wellsville a place where we can be proud to live. Mow your lawns as frequently as possible. Grass over 10” is a code violation and abatement fees can be very severe. Keep your yards free of trash, salvage, inoperable, wrecked or unregistered vehicles, these are all code violations and abatement of them ca consist of expensive fines, tow charges or both.

In closing, we’d like to encourage you to support our local businesses, shop Wellsville first, by doing so you’ll help keep our community thriving and growing.

Thank you for your participation and support.

Sincerely,
Mayor Bill Lytle & City Council