ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 25, 1995                   TAG: 9507250053
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-6   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

MONTGOMERY COUNTY MAKES TRASH-COLLECTION CHANGES

Montgomery County has relocated one trash-collection site, eliminated four more and extended hours at another as part of ongoing changes to its rural trash collection system.

The site that has been moved was along Virginia 177, or Tyler Road, between Radford and Interstate 81. Three trash collection boxes had been in the unused highway right-of-way. Now that portion of Virginia 177 is being widened to four lanes, and the county needed to move the boxes.

The new site for that part of the county is at the Radford Travel Center, just up the road at Mud Pike and Virginia 177.

The county has eliminated three greenbox sites east of Blacksburg in the Ellett Valley area because of the recent completion of a consolidated site beside the Food Time convenience store in Ellett. The closed sites include:

Jennelle Road near Acco Stone Co.

North Fork Road at Seneca Hollow Road.

Both Ironto-area sites.

Aside from the new Ellett site, residents closer to I-81 may haul their garbage to a trash collection point at the Elliston-Lafayette Industrial Park.

Meanwhile, the county has extended hours at the Plum Creek-area site, located on Plum Creek Road between U.S. 11 and Texas Road. The site is open 7 a.m.-10 p.m. 


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