{"id":15014,"date":"2023-10-17T05:22:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=15014"},"modified":"2023-10-17T05:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:23:05","slug":"lavallettes-new-garbage-truck-fleet-is-arriving-in-n-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2023\/10\/lavallettes-new-garbage-truck-fleet-is-arriving-in-n-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavallette’s New Garbage Truck Fleet is Almost Ready to Hit The Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lavallette Borough Hall (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Lavallette officials said that after two years of waiting on assembly, its two new garbage trucks are nearly ready to undergo their transitions into service.<\/p>\n

One of the two trucks, Mayor Walter LaCicero said, has already been delivered to a garage in Jackson, where it will remain until it is sent out to a new facility where its compactor and other similar controls will be added.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the trucks is in Jackson awaiting our inspection,\u201d said LaCicero. \u201cWe have to inspect the vehicle and makes sure it meets the specs and make sure that everything is okay. At that point it will be shipped from the Jackson facility to the packer facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

The borough council bonded the cost of the two trucks in its annual capital budget in 2022, replacing trucks that are currently about 25-years-old, and bonded the cost of the compactors the next in order to soften upgrade cost. The decision came after three of the borough\u2019s garbage trucks broke down in the span of a week, necessitating the borough to use its recycling trucks for normal trash pickup. Those trucks \u2013 as well as some of the regular garbage trucks \u2013 are prone to leaking, especially after commercial pickups, which has generated some complaints from residents. The new trucks should put a stop of the vast majority of \u201cleaks\u201d while the recycling trucks will be disposed of, potentially at a surplus auction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re expecting the second chassis this week,\u201d LaCicero said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long process, we\u2019re anxiously awaiting them. Now the ones that are on the road can become the recycling trucks.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the inspection, the trucks will head to a local facility where they will be outfitted with their compactors, culminating in an important \u2013 but, of course, a bit humorous \u2013 addition to the borough fleet.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they will go to the packer company who will install those pieces and we can finally pick up our two, new sparkling garbage trucks,\u201d LaCicero said with a smile.<\/p>\n

Borough officials and residents have occasionally debated whether to adopt a \u201ctipper\u201d system for its trash collection, similar to what many colloquially call \u201crobo-cans.\u201d Under a tipper system, an \u201carm\u201d could be retrofitted onto the new trucks to allow a public works employee to automatically dump a uniform-style can into the compactor and place it back down in the street. Such a system would cost about $135,000 to issue each home in town with one large can, and about $44,000 per tipper arm.<\/p>\n

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A representative from IPL Global shows off his company\u2019s tipper can (robo-can) for garbage collection, March 2023. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The council never reached a consensus on the issue, seemingly with an equal percentage of officials and residents supporting and opposing the change. Many argued that the tipper system would eliminate the practice of some visitors or part-time residents leaving garbage in bags out on the street, allowing gulls to break through and leaving trash strewn about the street. Other residents, however, worried that the tipper cans would be too large and difficult to wheel out to the curb in stones, and in many cases would remain out on the street for a week until a part-time resident returned the following weekend.<\/p>\n

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Trash bags in Seaside Heights, N.J. (Photo: Seaside Heights Public Works)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe consulted with DPW, and they consulted with Toms River who said they can be problematic\u201d on the barrier island, the mayor said. \u201cYou have to wheel them out, and have someone wheel them back in because it would take forever for our employees to do that at every home in town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should the majority opinion change, however, the two new trucks were built to specifications that would allow the addition of the tipper system to be added quickly and at a relatively low cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we change our minds, we can add the tipper at a minimal expense,\u201d said LaCicero.<\/p>\n

Lavallette will also begin requiring most commercial businesses in town to utilize private haulers for their trash pickup instead of the borough. These pickups will occur more often and even on an as-needed basis during the busiest weekends of the summer, ensuring there is no interruption to residential pickups and trucks are not loaded with commercial trash such as liquids or foodstuffs that often produce the \u201cgarbage juice\u201d that generated complaints.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is really where the liquid issues are coming from,\u201d said LaCicero, referring to the commercial pickups. \u201cThe new trucks should solve out part of the problem, and the new regulations should solve the other part of the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there is no official timeline for when the compactors will be installed on the two new trucks, it is not expected to take a lengthy amount of time, and the trucks will most definitely be on the road in time for the busy summer season next year, officials said.<\/p>\n

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