After heavy rain in southern Quebec, here's how to get rid of your damaged items
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After the flood and the damage, there's the cleanup.
While many residents in around south-central Montreal are just beginning to assess the damage from Friday's major water main break, there are lots of people across southern Quebec who are anxious to get rid of heavy debris following last week's torrential rains.
Cities and boroughs have set up a special debris collection schedule, beefing up the number of collection trucks in circulation and the pick-up hours.
If you're not sure what's happening in your area, contact your municipality or borough or check their social media pages for the latest updates. Many of them have specific instructions about the kinds of waste you can put out and where you can bring more hazardous materials.
Here is some of what municipalities and boroughs are doing.
Since Monday, trucks have been out in Laval to pick up debris, but the city's mayor acknowledged the operation has gone slowly. On Thursday, Stéphane Boyer said it would deploy more blue-collar workers and 60 extra trucks — mainly dump trucks and wheel loaders — to collect the debris.
In total, about 100 trucks are now expected to be out for collection.
To accelerate the process, the city plans to temporarily put debris at its snow dump sites, which are empty during summer, instead of driving to landfills outside the city in Terrebonne or Lachute.
Collection will take place daily between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m over the next few days.
Boyer said Laval residents have called either 311 or 911 nearly 9,000 times since the floodwaters hit on Aug. 9.
The last day for colleciton in Beaconsfield is Saturday.
The city in Montreal's West Island wants residents to wrap items in plastic when possible, to make collections easier.
It is also among several cities and boroughs warning people to not put out electronics or hazardous waste like paint cans, oil and batteries.
People in Beaconsfield can get rid of the hazardous waste at Beaconsfield High School between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
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