April 16, 2010
Vol. 40, No. 113                                                                                 

Contact: Jim Short, Division of Air and Waste Management, Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Branch, 302-739-9403; or Joanna Wilson, Public Affairs, 302-739-9902.

Polly Drummond Hill Road Yard Waste Site to close for maintenance April 20-21
Site to reopen April 22

DNREC’s Polly Drummond Hill Yard Waste Demonstration Site will close for two days, Tuesday, April 20 and Wednesday, April 21, for maintenance activities. The site is located in the Pike Creek area on Polly Drummond Hill Road, about a ½ mile north of the Kirkwood Highway near Newark.

New Castle County residents wishing to drop off yard waste when the Polly Drummond Hill site is closed can take yard waste to one of DNREC’s other two sites – the Brandywine Hundred site located north of Wilmington or the DART Mid-County site near Bear.

DNREC’s Community Yard Waste Demonstration Sites business hours:

Polly Drummond Hill Community Yard Waste Demonstration Site
Closed Tuesday, April 20 through Wednesday, April 21; reopens Thursday, April 22 at 8:30 a.m.
Hours: Daily; 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise posted.
The site is located in the Pike Creek area on Polly Drummond Hill Road, about a ½ mile north of the Kirkwood Highway.

Brandywine Hundred Community Yard Waste Demonstration Site
Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday; 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise posted.
The site is located on the north side of Cauffiel Parkway, approximately 100 yards east of the Cauffiel Parkway and Philadelphia Pike (Business Route 13) intersection.

DART Mid-County Community Yard Waste Demonstration Site
Hours: Daily; 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise posted.
The site is located on the Southwest corner of the intersection of U.S. Route 13 and Route 72 near Bear. (Turn into the DART facility at 1423 S. Dupont Hwy, Bear.)

Commercial businesses, such as landscaping and lawn care companies as well as municipalities, are not eligible to drop off materials at the sites.

More information can be found online at www.dnrec.delaware.gov/yardwaste, or by calling 302-739-9403.