UP to Offer Curbside Brush Service This May

Ready for some spring yardwork? University Place Refuse Service, Inc. is offering oversized brush pickup to customers within UP city limits this season to help you tidy up, even if you're not signed up for yard service.

Here are the details:

Oversized brush pickup is available May 6-17, 2013 and Nov. 4-15, 2013.

The pickup day for your area will be the same as your Curbside Recycling or Yard Waste pickup day, during the weeks shown above. Remember, this is a one day event for each neighborhood.

Pile limitations: 1 per household no larger than 6’ wide x 6’ long x 6’ high.

The Oversized Brush Pickup targets the larger brush and limbs that don’t easily fit into a regular Yard Waste Toter. 

YES - Oversized Brush includes: branches, brush and limbs not larger than 6 feet in length or 4 inches in diameter. Stack loose for pickup (no bags or bundles). 

NO - Oversized Brush does NOT include: blackberry, holly or other vegetation with thorns; stumps, or limbs larger than 6 feet in length or 4 inches in diameter; small loose items such as, grass, leaves, weeds, bark, pine or fir needles, etc.

No noxious weeds such as: Scotch broom, English ivy, Poison oak, etc. 

If you are signed up for Yard Waste service, please make maximum the use of your Yard Waste Toter first before placing brush in a pile. Place your oversized Brush in a loose pile at the curb (or within 5 feet of the driveable portion of the roadway) for pickup. Make sure that the pile isn’t in the street and doesn’t block access to mailboxes or fire hydrants.

Yard waste dropoff is also available at the University Place Refuse Service, Inc. office, located at 2815 Rochester St. W., Mon. -Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

The cost is $10 per cubic yard; a long bed pickup to top of the bed is about 2 cubic yards.