Open since mid-July and funded with grants from Keep Texas Beautiful and grocery giant H.E.B., the Ingleside Recycling Center at 1580 Fourth St. hasn’t had electrical service. That has rendered machines used for baling piles of recyclable plastic and cardboard useless. Now, the City Manager confirms a contractor has been hired to hook up power that should be connected by the end of this month. Bad weather has also plagued the facility that is closed if there’s a heavy rain since the yard is dirt and it quickly becomes mud, threatening to create a situation where a resident of San Patricio County may get stuck. As it is, the facility operates with limited days and hours, as seen here.
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An Aransas Pass resident who frequents the Ingleside Recycling Center after gathering up items from her neighbors photographed this image of a large roll-off container that is filled to the top with cardboard. But before it can be moved for recycling it needs compacting and from mid-July when the center opened it has had no electricity to power the necessary device that was installed for that purpose. Plastic bottles also take up lots of floor space with nowhere to go until the compacting machine is up and running
Courtesy: J.C. Hill
An overlay map shows just how far the pending Fourth St. reconstruction project stretches, with the first shovels in the ground expected by late October. Ingleside officials pledge regular updates and‘transparency’about the project scope over time since thousands of people will be impacted while the infrastructure improvements move forward over what is expected to take just over a year to complete.
Courtesy: City of Ingleside
David Vasquez is the new Director of Infrastructure Services for the City of Ingleside. He started this month. Vasquez, who was Public Works Director in San Benito, TX in Cameron County has oversight for crews and equipment handling all municipal public works projects here.
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Ingleside Recycling Center Still Waits for Power
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