WILMINGTON — The City of Wilmington is almost complete with its first pass through of collecting debris from Hurricane Florence while New Hanover County is still working to service its residents with a first pass through.
“The City of Wilmington expects that the first pass of vegetative debris will be complete early next week – perhaps as early as Sunday. After the first pass is complete, crews will have picked up more than 800,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris. The city estimates about 400,000 more cubic yards of vegetative debris will be picked up during the second pass. When complete, crews will have picked up more than 10 times the amount of debris than from Hurricane Matthew,” City of Wilmington Spokeswoman Malissa Talbert said.
“Crews completed the first pass of construction & demolition debris earlier this week and collected between 13,000-14,000 cubic yards. A second pass for construction and demolition debris will take place in the coming weeks,” she concluded.
New Hanover County
The unincorporated region of New Hanover County, however, is taking more time to complete with a much larger land area to service. Debris removal in New Hanover County began on Sep. 24 and is still taking place.
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