Coming Soon - Free chipping services for Amador County residents
The Amador Resource Conservation District (ARCD) is implementing a residential fuels, roadside chipping program to help encourage continued vegetation maintenance in the county. Our intent is on contributing “One Less Spark”.
The ARCD will administer the chipping services program through a grant awarded by the California Fire Safe Council. This chipping program is open to all Amador County residents that first pile vegetative slash along roadsides or driveways, then submit a request for chipping service (intake form coming soon). Residents along key evacuation routes are especially encouraged to utilize this program. The ARCD will send an industrial chipper and crew to the site to process the roadside slash. The program will provide the community the ability to process vegetative debris, without the potential of fire escaped from burn piles.
All Chipping requests will be served on a first come, first serve basis, with common areas of requests batched together. Priority for service is given to hosts of “Community Chipping Days” where 5 or more residents have coordinated chipping service requests at a given time and location (intake form coming soon). This free residential fuels, roadside chipping program will be administered until the grant funds are exhausted, or December 2021, whichever comes first. With enough Amador County interest, the ARCD has made considerations for extending the program timeframe if grant funds are available.
The ARCD will administer the chipping services program through a grant awarded by the California Fire Safe Council. This chipping program is open to all Amador County residents that first pile vegetative slash along roadsides or driveways, then submit a request for chipping service (intake form coming soon). Residents along key evacuation routes are especially encouraged to utilize this program. The ARCD will send an industrial chipper and crew to the site to process the roadside slash. The program will provide the community the ability to process vegetative debris, without the potential of fire escaped from burn piles.
All Chipping requests will be served on a first come, first serve basis, with common areas of requests batched together. Priority for service is given to hosts of “Community Chipping Days” where 5 or more residents have coordinated chipping service requests at a given time and location (intake form coming soon). This free residential fuels, roadside chipping program will be administered until the grant funds are exhausted, or December 2021, whichever comes first. With enough Amador County interest, the ARCD has made considerations for extending the program timeframe if grant funds are available.
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