— press release from Franklin County Government

Franklin County Solid Waste Facilities to Close May 28th for Maintenance

State Required Maintenance will close transfer station and convenience centers

Franklin County’s Solid Waste Transfer Station and 12 residential convenience centers will be closed Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2018 to perform State of North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality required maintenance and safety improvements inside the transfer station and its disposal tipping floor. Franklin County residents and commercial customers of the transfer station are encouraged to adjust their disposal plans in the days leading up to the one-day closure to avoid any inconveniences.

According to Brian Haynesworth, Franklin County’s Solid Waste Director, “It can be challenging to find a window of opportunity to perform two consecutive days of required maintenance and safety improvements at a busy facility such as ours and minimize disruption of disposal services for residents and the commercial customers. By choosing to close the transfer station on Memorial Day, we selected a day that normally has a significantly reduced number of customers because of holiday events or out of town travel as opposed to a non-holiday where more customers would be inconvenienced.”

Solid waste facilities are open with abbreviated operating hours at the transfer station but normal operating hours at the residential convenience centers on most holidays with the exception of Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.

The transfer station’s operating hours for the Memorial Day Holiday weekend will be as follows: Friday, May 25 – 7am to 3:30pm; Saturday, May 26 – 7am to 1pm; Sunday, May 27 and Monday, May 28 – Closed. The convenience centers’ operating hours for the same period are: Friday, May 25 – 7am to 7pm; Saturday, May 26 – 7am to 7pm; Sunday, May 27 and Monday, May 28 – Closed.

For more information about the schedule change or Franklin County’s solid waste management, recycling and waste reduction programs, please visit https://www.franklincountync.us/recycles or contact the Solid Waste Information Line at 919-496-5002.