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<br />We shall document the results of the proposed project by <br />measuring the yards of processed brush. For every yard of <br />processed brush, we have started with ten (10) yards of <br />unprocessed brush. <br /> <br />Prior to 1991, the City of Paris Sanitation Department picked <br />up unprocessed brush and put it in the landfill. <br /> <br />In 1991, the City of Paris began a brush chipping project <br />when we announced to our citizens that we would pick up brush <br />and limbs at curbside as part of our bulk pickup service. <br />Citizens called our Public Works Department and we took the <br />brush chipper to the residence and chipped the brush on site <br />and blew the wood chips into a covered dump truck. We then <br />dumped the wood chips on a city-owned seven (7) acre site in <br />southwest Paris to decompose. <br /> <br />The amount of processed brush has increased thru the years <br />and in 1995, we processed 27,000 yards of unprocessed brush <br />into 2,700 yards of processed yards. The processed yards or <br />wood chips are placed on our seven (7) acre site and none of <br />the wood chips go into the landfill. If we had taken the <br />27,000 yards of unprocessed brush into the landfill, it would <br />have cost the City of Paris $205,200.00. <br /> <br />All citizens of Paris receive in their water bill annually a <br />residential collection policy (See Attached) which explains <br />all of our collection policies. The current population of <br />Paris is 25,000. If the 27,000 yards of unprocessed brush <br />had gone to the landfill, it would have cost every citizen in <br />Paris $8.21 each. By using the processed brush program, we <br />have reduced our landfill deposits in 1995, by forty-two <br />percent (42%). <br />