News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 Where The Upper Cumberland Talks
The Clay County Sanitation Department will open its new Walker Hill Convenience Center in Moss Monday.
Administrative Assistant Meghan Deckard said the center will have a compactor, a cardboard trailer, a roll-off container, and much more space than the old facility. Deckard said the new location will be able to better accommodate citizens with easier access to dumpsters and more efficient entry and exit spaces.
“With this new site being able to have a roll-off onsite, we’ll be able to accept furniture, households items that are bigger that we can’t, that can’t go in the compactor,” Deckard said. “Unlike at the current site, it’s mainly the eight-yards and we can’t put furniture or bigger items in there.”
Deckard said the new center will also make things easier for the department because the extra space means they will not have to haul trash away from it as often. She said they also own the land where the new site is located so they will now be saving money on rent and other related expenses.
“It’ll still remain our two main guys, Mr. James Stewart and John Poindexter,” Deckard said. “They’ll still be operating the facility in the same hours and schedule that the prior site did.”
Deckard said the new site sits about ten minutes closer to their main facility so people will not have to travel as far to dispose of waste the center cannot accept.
“Nothing price wise changes,” Deckard said. “We don’t have any fees on disposing of trash or anything. The only thing that we, our sites and our main facility, have fees on is tires and mattresses. And of course anything of that nature can be took care of down at our main facility.”
Deckard said this new facility has been a long time coming and the department is very excited for it to open. Deckard said their previous Moss facility on Tompkinsville Highway will close on Saturday, August 10.
“It was kind of crowded,” Deckard said. “People would have to try to take turns one at a time going in the site, so at this new one people will be able to come right in, swing around the compactor.”
