Sanitation Fund

The Sanitation Department oversees a Type 1 Subtitle D sanitary landfill for over 5,500 residential customers, commercial customers, a brush chipping and leaf collection program, and a recycling center that currently collects aluminum, corrugated cardboard, tin, and other metals.

• Serve the citizens of our growing community to the best of our ability with the existing staff
• Remain in compliance with state and federal laws that govern the solid waste industry

• Communicate effectively with our customers and keep in compliance with TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) standards
• Monitor trends in the solid waste and recycling industries

• Purchased a new lawn mower
• Expanded our street can program by hiring a dedicated employee and adding more cans to Main Street and side streets
• Accepted more materials at the recycling center (plastics, newspaper, magazines, mixed paper and shredded paper)

• Purchase of a new tractor and shredder to better maintain vegetation at landfill facility
• Purchase of a new Utility Terrain Vehicle for Right-of-Way clean up
• Design and construction of Cell #9
• Survey remaining landfill airspace and evaluate rate structure
• Discuss long term plans for landfill facility and recycling center