The City of Indianola Public Works Department is announcing its new routing system for its knuckle boom truck.
“This has nothing to do with our regular garbage collection company schedule or route,” said Indianola Mayor Steve Rosenthal. “There will be no change with that.”
The boom truck will be able to pick up grass clippings, limbs, and yard clippings, but all leaves and grass clippings must be bagged.
Items that the truck will not pick up include tires, large piles of building materials by contractors, roofing shingles, paint cans or other hazardous materials and limbs cut by commercial tree cutters or contractors.
Old tires can be brought to the Sunflower County Road Department barn on U.S. 49N and put into a tire trailer. The service is free of charge but is not provided for commercial businesses that fix tires.
The pickup days will be as follows:
Ward I – Monday – Yellow
Ward II – Tuesday – Red
Ward III – Wednesday – Green
Ward IV – Thursday – Blue
Ward V – Friday - Orange
The city will observe the following holidays when it comes to the knuckle boom truck: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
By way of example, Rosenthal said that someone who lives in Ward 4 that calls on Friday to report a large pile of trash will be told that it will be picked up the following Thursday.
Citizens are instructed to call Ruthie at Public Works (662-887-3427), to schedule a pickup.
