With it seeming that the spring weather is here to stay, the Lake Panorama Association’s yard waste brush dump sites are open again for lake residents to use at their disposal.

General Manager John Rutledge says the brush dump sites are sponsored by the Rural Improvement Zone (RIZ), and he calls their presence a win for residents, the LPA and RIZ.

“It’s a tremendous convenience for LPA members, but from the RIZ standpoint, it also prevents people from burning in ditches and gullyways which creates a lot of erosion.  So, it is kind of a dual program for us–it is an awareness program saying, ‘let’s not destroy that vegetation that is keeping the soil in place’, and two, we try to make it convenient for members to dispose of their brush and yard waste so that we don’t have smoldering fires going at 100 different residences every weekend.  It really helps us in many ways.”

The brush dump sites are open Wednesday through Sunday from 9am to 7pm.  Rutledge says anything that grows on one’s lot can be taken to the sites for disposal except logs bigger than 12 inches in diameter, stumps and root balls. Construction debris, including untreated wood, is prohibited at the yard waste sites.

To hear more from Rutledge as he talks about some of the happenings at Lake Panorama, tune-in to today’s Let’s Talk Guthrie County on K107 during the 9am, noon and 5pm hours.