You Did Great! Missoula Storm Cleanup is About Done

There are still some "straggler piles" to clear up, but Missoula Public Works crews are largely finished with collecting tons of debris from last month's big storm.

It was just two weeks ago that Missoula crews waded into what appeared to be a mammoth task, cleaning up neighborhood after neighborhood, where thousands of trees and limbs were piled along the curbs.

But Monday, Deputy Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Nick Holloway told me the project is nearly complete, as crews were working in the Miller Creek neighborhood.

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The cleanup went a LOT faster than expected

"They're going to try and finish up some areas on the South side of town this week, and then they'll probably go around town looking for some of those straggler piles they may have missed through the first two or three weeks," Holloway explains

Holloway says for the most part, things have gone so quickly because you all did a good job of managing the debris and also doing some hauling on your own.

"I think that really says a lot for people taking recovery into their own hands and cleaning up their own lots and getting storm debris to the sites by themselves."

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Where you can still drop debris in Missoula

If you have additional debris that didn't get picked up, now is the time to take it straight to the remaining drop-off points, at the Larchmont Triangle, the North Side lot off Scott Street, or Garden City Compost.

"So those debris sites are still free, which is something to take advantage of, but only Larchmont and the north side debris sites are available to take storm-related debris."

And remember, the drop-off sites are for storm debris ONLY. Anything mixed with other vegetation such as grass clippings should go to the compost site and no one should be bringing shingles or damaged building materials.