One of PEMA’s Incident Management Team main objectives in its deployment, is to assist in the debris removal from flooding in order to help the residents and municipalities recover as fast as possible. 

The debris has consisted of damaged water heaters, indoor and outdoor furniture, drywall, lawn mowers, carpeting, tree limbs, refrigerators, washers, dryers, house siding, personal belongings and everything imaginable associated with a house being flooded and damaged. 

To date, over 1,200 tons of waste has been collected, put into dumpsters and hauled to landfills.  That equates to more than 225 dumpsters loads.  The debris has been collected in the Cowanesque Valley by the pick up truck load, by the trailer load, by state and municipal dump trucks then moved to a centralized unloading/loading transfer site.  Then the debris has been loaded into dumpsters or large dump trucks and trucked to a landfill in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

(Regarding the attached pictures, I took them, however, I would prefer not getting recognition for the photo but if you have to acknowledge the photographer, I’m fine with my name being utilized.)