Mulch Hauling Continues as Second Pass Begins on City Streets

Rainy weather delayed some debris collection work over the weekend, but SRS Inc., the City’s debris-hauling contractor, says it is finishing its first pass today in a few parts of Tulsa and beginning the second pass in others.

The contractor plans to follow approximately the same routes as during the first pass as crews make the second pass in coming weeks.

Some 10,000 to 11,000 cubic yards of mulch – the product of grinding tree limbs into wood chips – have been hauled from Johnson Park at 61st and Riverside Drive.  One of the tub-grinders in use there will be moved this week to another temporary debris disposal site near Tulsa International Airport.  Mulch grinding will continue at both sites and the chips are being hauled to rural land west of Sand Springs where it is being mixed with topsoil.

As of Monday Sunday evening, crews have removed some 43,000 truck and trailer loads of tree debris from Tulsa streets. Those loads totaled nearly two million cubic yards at a cost of $3.79 per cubic yard, for a total of $7.51 million.  That total does not include the cost of  grinding the debris in to mulch or the cost of monitoring operations to ensure that federal guidelines are followed.

The Mayor’s Action Center is getting calls from residents who believe their properties were skipped during the first pass. In many locations, debris could not be removed because of obstructions – vehicles parked blocking access, structures or electrical lines or standing trees blocking access, and other reasons. The haulers and monitors are noting those sites and later efforts will be made to collect the missed debris.

Anyone with questions or who believes their property was missed when haulers worked on their streets can report it to the Mayor’s Action Center at 596-2100.