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Free yard waste disposal event May 11-12, 18-19

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CHELAN - There will be a free yard waste disposal event, Friday and Saturday, May 11 and 12, and 18 and 19 at the Chelan County Transfer Station, 23235 State Highway 97A (Recycle Center). Residents can dispose of vegetation to help reduce risk to wildfire and decrease impacts to air quality from outdoor burning. Accepted: Trees and limbs up to 12 inches in diameter and less than 8 feet long, leaves, pine needles, and shrubs. Not accepted: Rocks, plastic bags, grass clippings, sod, root wads and weeds.
Create a defensible space around your home: remove highly flammable vegetation, including Juniper and Arborvitae, from your landscape; rake leaves and pine needles from around your structures; clean gutters and roofs of flammable material and prune trees limbs 5-10 feet high around structures.
Last year over 112 residents of Chelan disposed of 460 yards of debris to create defensible space around their homes.
For more information or how to become Firewise contact Cascadia Conservation District at (509) 436-1601.

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