Residents have another opportunity to get their junked vehicles and scrap metal off the island, and the borough is encouraging people to take advantage of the free service.
Channel Construction, which operates a scrap metal recycling service and barge in Southeast, is expected to pick up a load in Wrangell sometime in September.
“We will be sending out letters to owners of properties (vehicles) that have been abandoned and/or are a danger to the community,” Borough Manager Jeff Good reported to the assembly for its Aug. 22 meeting. “We continue to work with the owners of junk vehicles to have them disposed of.”
Owners may bring their unwanted cars and trucks to the borough’s solid waste transfer station at the north end of the island. There is no charge, though the owner is responsible for draining all fluids from the vehicle and removing the tires.
The transfer station is open 8:30 to 11 a.m. and noon to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Channel Construction will pick up the vehicles from the transfer station and haul them to the company’s operation at the former 6-Mile sawmill property for loading aboard the barge. The Juneau-based company has a month-to-month lease for the borough-owned property, Good said, while the assembly and borough officials look toward longer-term development of the acreage.
More than 70 junked vehicles left the island aboard the barge over the past year, according to borough officials.
“It’s fairly consistent,” Public Works Director Tom Wetor said of the pace of cars and trucks that are dropped off at the transfer station, though there are “occasional rushes” when a property owner cleans up a derelict lot.
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