Originally Posted by champion6 (Post 1453243)

VCDD e-Notification
Subject: Administrative Message - Special Notification to All Newsletter Subscribers
Date: 9/25/2017 4:33 PM

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this unprecedented event in The Villages.

We appreciate the calls and inquiries we have received and the ability to explain what is transpiring regarding a number of services which includes vegetative debris removal. Although not all emails and phone calls have been returned, we are doing our best to do so.

As information, the Community Development Districts do have a contract with a company to provide vegetative removal after a weather event. It is unfortunate that our contracted company, along with most contracted companies throughout central Florida, have had their subcontractors heading south for work due to monetary reasons. At this moment, the State Attorney General is actually looking into this situation and the potential legal issues involved.

However, although a number of Crowder-Gulf’s (CG) subcontractors have left, CG and the District have been working diligently with the District’s contractors to become eligible debris haulers and we now have backfilled a number of the vehicles that left.

There have been a number of calls, inquiries and requests for credit for the lack of yard waste pickup by our contracted hauler, CH2MHILL. The company was directed to not pick up yard debris from the storm. While there are numerous valid reasons for doing so, including logistics, the salient point is that the company will be expending additional time and work to follow behind the contracted debris hauler to guarantee all debris has been removed. Once a District has had all residential storm-related debris removed, normal yard waste will resume the following Wednesday.

Due to the limited amount of debris in Districts 9 and 10, a decision has been made to resume CH2MHILL removal of yard waste. However, should there be large amounts of debris/tree limbs/stumps, they will be left and will be picked up by CG. Districts 3 and 4 will also have normal yard waste removal resumed this week as storm debris will have been removed by that time.

In addition, you are reminded to not take your vegetative debris to postal and recreation centers due to safety concerns.

Please note that while your home may not have substantial vegetative debris, that is not the case throughout The Villages. Please bear with us as we work very hard to say good bye to Irma’s remnants and respectfully request your patience during the clean-up.

Originally Posted by jnieman (Post 1453585)

South Florida poaches debris pickup trucks once headed to Tampa Bay | Tampa Bay Times

The Villages is not the only town with problems. This article tells the whole story.

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1453587)

Is it a triage, of sorts, do you think? Those that need help most, get it first?

Originally Posted by Hancle704 (Post 1453667)

Still don't understand why pick up of debris placed in biodegradable paper bags have not been picked up.

Originally Posted by jnieman (Post 1453679)

I called our waste management co. last week to arrange for a large item pickup (old grill) and spoke with a lady at the office. She said Wednesday debris pickups have been suspended as the Villages hired a private contractor to pick up the hurricane debris. Now that the contractor has pulled out who knows what will happen. I can't see the normal debris people doing it as it is a monumental task at this point not your normal couple of bags per house. My neighbor has out 15-20 bags and so do other neighbors. This may all take a while to figure out.

Originally Posted by d_andry (Post 1453613)

Has anyone seen these haulers??? Why wait 2 to 3 weeks more. Everyone take 1 bag and drop it off at Lake Sumter Town Square ? Then we might get back to our Wednesday yard waste pick up day.

Originally Posted by carolmarion (Post 1457248)

The original poster asked if folks would give a shoutout if they SAW A TRUCK ON THIER STREET, so we could track the progress. 40 comments later, one person saw a truck. I'm interested in tracking this, too, as I've never seen a truck. Can we stay on topic here and just report SIGHTINGS?