(Okoboji)-A new Adopt-a -Roadside program is getting started in Dickinson County, KUOO’s Becky Thoreson has details:
A new Adopt-a-Roadside program aims to help to clean up roadsides along county roads in the Iowa Great Lakes.
Douglas Todey, Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program Manager with Dickinson County Conservation says, the idea is similar to the state-wide program for highways. “I just saw a need for a similar type of system in Dickinson County. I mean, I’ve been working for the County for just over 2 years and most of that has been working with our roadside program and I’m looking at our ditches all day and I see a lot of littler and garbage and just all sorts of stuff so, I saw that there was a need for this and over the winter I helped put together a program to lay the groundwork for this, putting some rules and regulations in, getting equipment ordered and just figured this is about the right time to get this off the ground and get it out to the public and see if there was interest in this.”
He notes that anyone wishing to adopt a section of road will be provided safety gear. “Groups or individuals, whoever wants to do it, can volunteer to do at least one mile of a roadway. Then they have to clean up litter at least twice a year for at least two years. You’ll be supplied with gloves, high visibility vests and we’ll put up road signs for when the groups are out, and we have first aid kits as well for each group.”
Interested parties should contact Todey at Dickinson County Conservation
email: dtodey@co.dickinson.ia.us
phone: 712.336.6352.
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