What to do with ice storm debris on your property

CTVnews.ca
March 29, 2016

As of noon Tuesday, Hydro One was reporting only very localized power outages from last week’s storm.

One of the biggest in our area was along a stretch of Wellington Road 15 near the Luther Marsh, where 27 people remained without electricity.

With power restored in most areas, attention is now turning to cleanup efforts.

The Region of Waterloo released information Tuesday explaining how residents can gather their storm debris so that it will be picked up by waste collection trucks.

Specifically, debris from the ice storm will be gathered as part of the region’s biweekly yard waste pickup program.

Yard waste is being picked up this week in Kitchener and Wilmot, and next week in the region’s other cities and townships.

Waste management officials say tree branches must be cut to at most 92 cm or three feet in length, and 7.5 cm or three inches in diameter, in order to be picked up.

Branches should also be tied together with twine, in bunches that weight at most 23 kilograms or 50 pounds, or placed in designated yard waste bags or cans.

Trees too large to dispose of in this manner can be taken to waste transfer stations in Cambridge and Waterloo.

Fees usually charged by those transfer stations will be waved for trees and branches downed by the ice storm until April 9.