Rescheduled Citywide Cleanup this weekend: What to know before you go

  • DO NOT BE FOOLED! This is not a refreshing rural watering hole, but instead the city dump pit full of rainwater. With a liquid capacity of 788k gallons, the pit took more than two weeks to pump dry in preparation for this weekend's rescheduled Citywide Cleanup. Photo courtesy City of Menard.
    DO NOT BE FOOLED! This is not a refreshing rural watering hole, but instead the city dump pit full of rainwater. With a liquid capacity of 788k gallons, the pit took more than two weeks to pump dry in preparation for this weekend's rescheduled Citywide Cleanup. Photo courtesy City of Menard.

    The City of Menard’s annual Citywide Cleanup was originally scheduled for June 5-7, when along came several inches of very welcomed rainfall. Per Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) requirements, the city’s landfill must remain closed when any amount of standing water accumulates in the facility’s earthen pit, called “ponding.”

    At that point, the pit did not have simply standing water,…