BROOKHAVEN — Lincoln County residents can mark April 19, 2025 on the calendar as the long-awaited date for Hazardous Waste Day. Litter and Solid Waste Control Coordinator Bob Knight said they would contract with Complete Environmental for the cleanup event.

Knight said they have talked about having the Hazardous Waste Day at the Lincoln Civic Center located at 1096 Beltline Drive. The idea this time would be to snake traffic through the civic center’s parking lot so it does not back up down old US51.

The hazardous waste day would be in the morning and would not interfere with anything at the civic center. Knight said the event is limited to four hours long and it would likely be from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Lincoln County administrator Daniel Calcote said it is expensive for the county to do the hazardous waste day.

“Last time we did it, it was $63,000 to do it. We had a lot of chemicals, metals, paint. It is more and more the more we do it,” Calcote said. “We get a grant from MDEQ which pays for half of it.”

Spring cleanup is an annual event the county puts on. Calcote said they do not want to do the cleanup at the same time as the hazardous waste day. In the past, Lincoln County had the spring cleanup event at five different locations across the county.

In recent years, Knight suggested a more centralized location to make the cleanup run efficiently. It is likely the spring cleanup event will take place at the Waste Management transfer station in Brookhaven. Supervisors said they would do the spring cleanup on April 26, May 3 and May 10, 2025.

“We need to remember something. If we start at 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. or 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., we will have to ask Steve (Rushing) to use trusties. I would like to keep the county hands. They work well and are excellent hands. We will have to have safety hats and glasses. We used to dump into the truck. Has to be put on the ground and it would then be pushed into it.”

Supervisors will discuss further details about spring cleanup with waste management at the next board meeting on Feb. 17. Check back for more details and information about hazardous waste day and spring cleanup.