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Roswell Museum

Roswell Museum

Director of Administrative Services

Juan Fuentes

Solid Waste Director

Abraham Chaparro

One Department, Two Divisions. . .

The Solid Waste Department is made up of 2 divisions. Each division works to manage all the solid waste for the City of Roswell.

The Collections division of the Solid Waste Department consists of the Automated Trash Collection, Rear-load Trash Collection, and Bulk Trash service.

The Automated Trash Collection services collect approximately 10,229 containers twice a week. This is a combination of 96 gallon and 300 gallon containers that are distributed citywide.

The Rear-load Trash collection services 1255 3-yard metal containers every week. Once those containers are collected, they are brought out to the Roswell Municipal Landfill where the Landfill Operations takes over to safely dispose of the Solid Waste.

This is accomplished with 37 Full Time employees, who have worked a collective of:

• 66,643 regular hours, • 4,313.30 hours of overtime.

This is accomplished with 41 pieces of equipment and an operating expense of $9,462,080.

Collections

• YTD Tonnage of: 46,751.29 • 20 FTE Employees • 26 Vehicles in Use • M&R Vehicle Expense of $887,213 • Fuel Cost of $222,138

Automated

• YTD Tonnage of: 34,046.71 • 8 FTE Employees • 8 Vehicles in Use

Rear-load

• YTD Tonnage of: 5,469.36 • 4 FTE Employees • 2 Vehicles in Use

Roll-Off

• YTD Tonnage of 3,171.10 Tons • 2 FTE Employees • 2 Vehicles in Use • 42 30 yd Roll-Off Containers • 20 20 yd Roll-Off Containers

Grappler

• YTD Tonnage of: 4,064.12 • 6 FTE Employees • 4 Vehicles in Use

Collected 10,229 Containers Twice per Week

Landfill Operations

• YTD Tonnage of: 82,785.86

Tons • 10 FTE Employees and 2

Seasonal Temp Employees • 18 Pieces of Equipment in

Use • M&R Vehicle Expense of $314,802 • Fuel Cost of $164,000

37 Full-Time Employees Working 70,000+ Hrs

New Landfills Cells Constructed

Cell 4 from 2020 Cell 5 Pre-Construction

Cell 5 Under Construction Cell 5 After Construction

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