The City of Arkansas City is shifting to a four-day sanitation schedule this week due to the closure of all City offices Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The F Street Limb Disposal and Compost Site in Ark City also will be closed Monday.
The joint Arkansas City/Winfield Recycling Operations Center in Strother Field will reopen for drop-offs from 8 a.m. to noon on Jan. 22-23.
All of Monday’s and part of Tuesday’s routes will be collected Tuesday, Jan. 19. The part of Tuesday’s route to be collected is from Madison Avenue south to the Mill Canal, and from Summit Street east to E Street and southeast through Sleeth Addition. (Please see accompanying map for full detail of pickup areas.)
The remainder of Tuesday’s route and all of Wednesday’s routes will be collected Wednesday, Jan. 20. Thursday’s and Friday’s routes will be unaffected by this holiday disruption.
All refuse should be placed at normal pickup locations by 6 a.m. on the scheduled day of pickup. There will be no return pickups.
