City of Lawrence closes compost facility, postpones all sales and brush drop-off

photo by: Richard Gwin/Journal-World File Photo

In this file photo from March 2012, a Lawrence resident manually loads his truck at the city’s compost facility, 1420 E. 11th St.

The City of Lawrence has closed its compost facility and postponed all upcoming sales and other events.

The city said in a news release Thursday that it closed the facility in an ongoing effort to protect the health and safety of city employees and the Lawrence community. The facility will be closed to the public effective immediately, including postponing previously scheduled compost and woodchip sales.

The city said the compost and woodchip sale events originally scheduled for March 27-28 and April 3-4 will no longer occur on those dates, but it is anticipated they will be rescheduled for later in the year. The facility’s weekly Saturday activities, including brush and yard waste drop-off as well as compost and woodchip purchases, will be canceled until further notice. Information on when the facility will reopen to the public and new dates for sales will be announced in a news release.

For more information, residents may contact Municipal Services & Operations Solid Waste customer service at solidwaste@lawrenceks.org or 785-832-3032.

More coverage: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

As the pandemic continues, the Journal-World will be making coverage of COVID-19 available outside of the paywall on LJWorld.com.

Find all coverage of city, county and state responses to the virus at: ljworld.com/coronavirus/

What to do if you think you may have COVID-19

Patients who have symptoms — difficulty breathing, cough and fever — should stay home, immediately isolate themselves from others and call their health care providers. Patients should never show up unannounced at a medical office or hospital. Instead, they should call ahead to explain their symptoms and give health care workers the ability to minimize the risk to others.

If patients do not have health care providers, they may call the Lawrence Douglas-County health department’s coronavirus line, 785-856-4343.

For updated information on the outbreak, Kansas residents can email COVID-19@ks.gov or call 866-534-3463 (866-KDHEINF), which is staffed 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday; and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

More information can be found through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s website or the Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health website.

COMMENTS

Welcome to the new LJWorld.com. Our old commenting system has been replaced with Facebook Comments. There is no longer a separate username and password login step. If you are already signed into Facebook within your browser, you will be able to comment. If you do not have a Facebook account and do not wish to create one, you will not be able to comment on stories.