If you ask Chris Nemethy how busy he’s been hauling debris after back-to-back hurricanes, he’ll put it plainly. “Busier than my wife would like me to be,” he said. “I’m running between 10 and 14 hours a day, seven days a week.”
He explained how it’s been a bit of a struggle for private haulers like himself in Pinellas County trying to help homeowners and figure out where to take debris.
“From the very get go, we’ve been facing one struggle after another,” said Nemethy. “We thought that we’d made some headway and had a solution, and as of Monday, we’re back at square one.”
The main Pinellas County dump site—the County’s Solid Waste Disposal Complex in St. Pete—is no longer open to commercial haulers and private citizens for storm debris drop off. That change began earlier this week on Monday.
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The County said the storm debris drop off site at that location was opened, operated, and closed by the Florida Department of Emergency Management.