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Laredo environmental and solid-waste staff outline stormwater maintenance, anti-dumping enforcement and landfill projects
Summary
City Environmental Services and Solid Waste staff told the Laredo Learning Council on Dec. 12 that crews are expanding stormwater maintenance, enforcing illegal dumping with cameras and higher fines, and planning composting and landfill-gas projects while continuing recycling and household hazardous-waste events.
John Porter, director of Environmental and Solid Waste for the City of Laredo, told the Learning Council on Dec. 12 that the merged Environmental Services and Solid Waste departments oversee stormwater, hazardous-materials permitting, illegal-dumping enforcement and household hazardous-waste and electronic-waste programs.
The presentation emphasized the city’s Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) work to stop nonpoint-source pollution from reaching the Rio Grande, including routine cleaning of storm pipes, televising lines, and targeted enforcement. "We have these special trucks that are called combination vacuum jetting trucks," said Juan Vasquez, environmental supervisor for the stormwater division, explaining the department’s vacuum-and-jet equipment and CCTV camera van used to document condition before and after maintenance. Vasquez described nozzle configurations and said one nozzle was “shooting 40 gallons per minute ... at a PSI of 2,000.” He noted home and larger pipe sizes can range from 24 inches to 60 inches.
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