Rumpke delivered more open-top waste containers today to areas hard hit by weekend storms. This is on Euclid Avenue.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Restrictions on how many bulk items of garbage can be set out for pickup are being relaxed this week so residents whose houses suffered flooding can get rid of water-damaged items.
But other safety-related rules governing what can be set out and what needs to be “prepared” still apply.
The City of Covington and its contractor, Rumpke Waste & Recycling, put the relaxed rules in place earlier today.
“We really appreciates Rumpke’s flexibility in taking extra items from the curb, but it should be noted that there is a limit to the capacity of the trucks,” said Ken Smith, the City’s Neighborhood Services Director.
Smith said the City is encouraging residents where possible to use open-top dumpsters that have been placed in the areas hardest hit by complications from Saturday night’s torrential rain. Several full dumpsters were carted away and more put in their place today.
Essentially:
Five inches of rain fell on Covington in a 24-hour period that ended about 7 a.m. Sunday. This was on top of weeks of on-and-off-again rain that had already saturated the ground.
The run-off caused two types of flooding throughout parts of the City: Water that washed into basements from outside, and water that backed up through drains.
Likewise, cities across Greater Cincinnati suffered a variety of damage, including downed trees, mudslides onto roads, flooded underpasses, washed-out asphalt, and flooded basements.
Covington Public Works crews continued to clean up today, and City officials met again today with Sanitation District No. 1 - the agency responsible for dealing with storm water - about run-off issues.