Trash disposal is more than a little inconvenient for people living in remote areas of Grundy County, County Commissioner Michael Brady says.
“Tarlton Valley people are having to travel something like 24 miles round trip to take their garbage off,” Brady said Monday. “People in the Hubbard’s Cove are traveling something like 24 to 26 miles.”
Construction on trash drop-off points – officially called community convenience centers – for those areas in northeast and northwest Grundy will begin in June, Brady said.
Grundy now has convenience centers in Beersheba Springs, Altamont, Palmer, Gruetli-Laager, Coalmont and Tracy City that accept household garbage, metal, scrap wood, newspaper, aluminum cans, cardboard and mixed paper, officials said.
Brady said the county’s first step is to acquire land for the centers. County officials are looking at state-owned land in the Tarlton Valley near the Collins River Bridge on state Highway 56, and are negotiating with landowners in the Hubbard’s Cove area near state Highway 108 and Fred Lusk Road, he said.