Time for Spring Chipping & Dumpsters!

Hello Residents of Okanogan County,

It's time for spring Air Care events! The Okanogan Conservation District will host chipping events and green waste dumpster disposal free of charge throughout the county. We encourage you to take part in the events coming to your area to promote better air quality by serving as an alternative to burning.

Find more information below and sign up for your community chipping event!

Soft Waste/Green Waste Dumpsters:

This is for vegetative disposal of natural plant-based materials that cannot be chipped. Materials such as leaves, pine needles, grass clippings, woodchips, and pinecones are allowed. NO large woody debris, trash, or animal carcasses.

Woody Waste Dumpsters: Disposal of natural plant-based materials that includes smaller woody debris such as bushes, twigs, branches less than 6-feet in length.

Chipping Events:

Gather up your woody materials (branches, tree limbs, bushes, etc.) and stack 3-ft wide by 3-ft tall pile(s) at the end of your driveway by 8am on the FIRST day of your community event. A chipper will come through the communities listed below and chip the woody materials. If you are interested in participating, please make sure to sign up for your chipping event and provide contact information so we can find your materials!

*After materials are chipped, the chips will be left in place of the pile or transported to a central drop off area.

Learn more about how to use chips for landscaping, compost, mulch, etc., on our resources page.

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Okanogan Valley Chipping Events:

• Crumbacher Community - May 8th (Sign up by May 6th)

• City of Okanogan - May 11th - May 15th (Sign up by May 8th)

• City of Omak - May 11th - May 15th (Sign up by May 8th)

• Aeneas Valley Stationary Event (NO sign-up required) - More information coming soon!

• Cameron Lake Loop Community - May 15th (NO sign-up required)

  • Place piles along WHITE lines on the map below, RED lines will not be visited by the chipper
    

    

    
    

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Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (CTCR) Chipping Events:

In partnership the w/ CTCR Environmental Trust

• Nespelem - June 15th - 18th (Sign up by June 12th)

• Elmer City - June 15th - 18th (Sign up by June 12th)

• Coulee Dam - June 15th - 18th (Sign up by June 12th)

  
  

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Methow Valley Chipping Events

• Sun Mountain Ranch Club - ***DATE CHANGE April 23rd & 24th (Sign up by April 21st)

• Town of Twisp: April 13th & 14th (Sign up by April 10th)

• City of Winthrop: April 15th & 16th (Sign up by April 13th)

• Edelweiss: May 18th - 22nd (Sign up by May 15th)

• Pine Forest: May 26th (Sign up by May 22nd)

• Lost River Airport Association: May 27th (Sign up by May 25th)

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Twisp Transfer Station Events: (x3 events: 4/22, 5/6 and 5/13)

FREE Yard Waste Disposal event at the Twisp Transfer Station provides Methow Valley residents with an alternative to backyard burning of their yard debris this spring.

Drop off at Twisp Transfer Station, 12 Twisp Airport Rd. 10am - 3pm, 4/22, 5/6 and 5/13

Materials allowed at Transfer Station Events:

All natural vegetation, branches and woody debris, brush and shrubs, weeds, pine needles and cones, leaves and grass clippings, plant trimmings

Materials NOT allowed:

Garbage of any kind, lumber or treated wood, homegrown fruit, dirt, construction debris/materials, plastics, paper

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Methow Valley Green Waste & Woody Waste Dumpsters

• Timberline Meadows: April 16^th - 20^th ; May 1^st - May 4^th 

  • Green Waste ONLY

  • Timberline Lane at the turnaround area near the community bathroom

• Mazama Community Club: April 16^th - 21^st

  • Green Waste ONLY

  • 512 Goat Creek Road

• SMRC: April 22^nd - April 30^th 

  • Green Waste ONLY

  • 15 Larkspur Dr.

• Cascade Condos: April 24^th - May 4^th 

  • Green Waste ONLY

  • Between 206 Cascadian Way & 208 Cascadian Place, next to compost bin

• Pine Forest: April 30^th - May 5^th 

  • Green Waste ONLY

  • Parking Area on Summer Road, just above North Blackjack Road

• Stud Horse Mountain: May 5^th - May 11^th 

  • Green Waste ONLY

  • Intersection of Studhorse and Deer Trail way

• Wister Way: May 7^th - May 12^th 

  • Green Waste ONLY

• Kumm Road: May 8^th - May 15^th 

  • Woody Waste ONLY

  • 9 Kumm Road

• Libby Creek: May 13^th - May 19^th 

  • Woody Waste ONLY

  • 280 Libby Creek Road Carlton

• Liberty Woodlands: May 14^th - May 21^st 

  • Green Waste ONLY

  • Adjacent to the pump house, corner of Liberty Ln and Ponderosa

• Edelweiss: May 20^th -  May 25^th 

  • Green Waste ONLY

  • Edelweiss "Meadow" off Goat Creek Road

• Lost River: May 22^nd - May 29^th 

  • Green Waste ONLY

  • Firehall on Littell Road

• Wilson Ranch: May 22^nd - May 26^th

  • Woody Waste ONLY

  • Wilson Ranch Road near the meadow and burn pile area

• Sky Ranch: May 28th - June 3rd

  • Green Waste ONLY

• Greenwood Estates: June 5^th - June 8^th 

  • Woody Waste ONLY

  • Empty lot at the NE corner of Greenwood Road