Hundreds make free drop-offs at Lindale dump day

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The toilet wasn’t new, but it was good and it would have made a fine addition to Ida Brown’s house. Instead it sat outside on a cold, winter’s night.

“It rained and then it froze and then it cracked,” Brown said. “Our dump doesn’t take stuff like this.”

Brown was one of hundreds who went Saturday to the Free Residential Dump Day at the old Lindale Mill, disposing of old toilets, washers and TVs for free. Vehicles breezed through when the collection began, but started to line up as the day progressed. At one point the line extended along South First Street and onto Park Avenue.

Michael Skeen, the county’s Public Works director, estimated that 10 bins — each 30-cubic yards — were filled. That’s about 25 tons worth of junk.

“We’ve had these for years, and we’ve never had the turnout that we had from this one,” Skeen said.

Skeen wants the next dump day to happen in June. He’s looking at the Shannon area, but has made no specific plans.

Chase Dover waited about 15 minutes Saturday before he got close enough for volunteers to pull an old microwave and other refuse from his vehicle.

“It’s a bunch of junk, really,” Dover said. “If I took this up to the landfill, it’d be about $30.”

Anna Stanley, who worked at the event, counted Dover’s vehicle as it passed. She said 270 vehicles drove by her checkpoint by 11:55 a.m. By then the line was onto Park Avenue.

“I think it’s a good idea,” she said. “It’d keep the community cleaner.”

Both Dover and Brown said they’d return to a future cleanup day.

“This is great,” Brown said. “I wish they’d have this more often. I could have probably filled this car and another.”

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Source: Rome News

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