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ELKINS Spring Cleanup is wrapping up as City of Elkins Street Department crews put the finishing touches on the project that began on April 5 and ends on Friday.
“We are still working on the cleanup this week and we’re going to finish it up on Friday,” said Elkins Operations Manager Bob Pingley. “We started Monday in Third Ward and now we are in Fourth Ward for a couple of days. We will wrap it all up in Fifth Ward on Thursday and Friday.”
As of Monday, the city had collected 78 tons of material from the Spring Cleanup so far. Local residents were allowed no more than one level pickup-truck load for each household. The cleanup, which is designed for residents to discard any unwanted items from their homes, garages, basements, and any other places where junk piles up, collected 15 tons of debris on the first day alone.
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ELKINS One of the main roads through downtown will be closed today through Friday, Elkins officials said.
S. Davis Avenue, between First and 11th Streets, will be closing at 7 a.m. today and will remain closed through Friday. Local traffic only will be permitted southbound to 10th Street.
“It is related to the sewer/stormwater separation project,” a city official told The Inter-Mountain Monday afternoon.
As part of Phase II of the sewer/stormwater project, crews will eventually excavate sections of 15 city streets and alleys in the neighborhood west of Wimer Field to install new, dedicated stormwater lines and related infrastructure components, including manholes and catch basins, according to information from city officials.