Debris gathered from alongside city and county roads may soon beonly a memory in Lincoln County.

Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Clifford Galey saidTuesday work at the city’s Federal Emergency Management Agencydebris dump site is nearly complete.

“There’s a small amount left there, but it’s going to be hauledoff soon,” he said.

All of the debris at the county site has been chipped, exceptfor the stumps, Galey said.

“We’re in the process of hauling it out now,” he said. “It’sgoing very well. The rain today has slowed us a bit, but they movedabout 3,000 yards yesterday.”

Galey said he hopes to have all the debris removed and the sitecleaned and closed by the end of the month. He estimated one-thirdof the debris at the county site had been removed in the pastweek.

Approximately 100,000 cubic yards of debris had been picked upand delivered to the city and county dump sites by U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers subcontractors, Galey said.

The amount is more than double the quantity experts hadpredicted was scattered throughout the county by Hurricane Katrina.Shortly after the storm, experts had estimated that 44,000 to45,000 cubic yards of debris had been created by Katrina.

The chipped debris is being delivered by contractors tobusinesses and organizations that can use the material to try toget some use out of the wasted timber, Galey said. The chippeddebris is being delivered to wood products companies, mulchingcompanies and others who can turn the waste to good use.