Aug. 25, 2010
Vol. 40, No. 294                                                                      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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 Sept. 7-10
Site to reopen Sept. 11

DNREC’s Polly Drummond Hill Yard Waste Demonstration Site will close the week of Sept. 7-10 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 several other alternatives. A list of these alternatives, including DNREC’s DART Mid-County Community Yard Waste Demonstration Site near Bear, can be found at www.dnrec.delaware.gov/yardwaste.

DNREC’s Community Yard Waste Demonstration Sites business hours:

Polly Drummond Hill Community Yard Waste Demonstration Site
Closed Tuesday, Sept. 7 through Friday, Sept. 10; reopens Saturday, Sept. 11 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.

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.