HAWAII STREET CLEANUP IS THE LATEST IN MAINTENANCE CREW EFFORTS AROUND TOWN
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Town Crew Supervisor Leon Spearman led an aggressive effort by his team of workers this week to clean long neglected curbs and gutters from Depot Street to Rayburn Street. This included restoring key water drainage runoff areas at the north end of Hawaii Street near the Rayburn intersection.
“Leon and the town crew, including a few of our newly hired contract workers, did a tremendous job this week of edging the curbs all along Hawaii Street and I really appreciate their dedication to cleaning out the gutters which were often backed up in heavy rains,” Mayor Brad Ayers said.
“On Thursday, I was able to get out and help Leon and John (Reed) cut a few trees and uncover a concrete drainage ditch that wasn’t even noticeable due to years of overgrowth. Johnny Reed can work a backhoe better than anyone I’ve seen. He got it into some tight spaces and really did a great job,” Ayers added.
In addition to Hawaii Street, the town maintenance crew was able to mow a large section of weeds which had grown to more than six feet in places along Rayburn Street, just to the north of Coffeeville Elementary School.
Mayor Ayers told The Coffeeville Courier that city workers will target many of the overgrown ditches near Rayburn, Hawaii, and Spears Streets in the coming weeks, though he indicated his preference to mow the ditches instead of poisoning. “I’m not a big fan of using poison to control weed growth if it can be avoided. I’d rather we keep it neat with regular mowings because one, it looks a lot better, and two, I don’t want to negatively impact our soil and water runoff with poisonous chemicals,” he said.
The mayor also confirmed to The Courier that mowing and road repair will continue near Camelot apartments, Tennessee Street, and Okahoma Street this week.