Putnam Road Crews Picking Up Storm Debris

Putnam County road crews are going through the county’s damaged areas picking up debris.

Road Supervisor Randy Jones said the process has been going on since the Memorial Day storms.

“We went through during the storm and cut the streets out and pushed the brush back to open up the roads, now we’re trying to clean up the right of way as best we can,”

Crews are collecting the debris and taking it for landfill use, he said.

“Well we take it to the landfill, we chip some of it up and make wood chips, it winds up in the landfill, they mix it with dirt and make sort of a topsoil to go over the final layer of their landfill when they reclaim,” Jones said.

Putnam County officials will meet with state officials Thursday to discuss whether the damaged parts of the county will be declared a disaster area.