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City staff report the site is unlocked during weekdays while the <br />City Ieaf collection program is in progress. Although the site <br />is unwatched at those times, staff believe there has been no <br />trouble with allowing some people to dump �eaves during the <br />unattended weekday hours. <br />City crews organize the �eaves at the site into three large rows, <br />separated and moved according to age (see Map 1}. After three <br />years, leaves have decomposed enough to be used as compost. <br />Compost is fxee for any Rosevzlle resadent to pick up <br />(identif�cation is rarely checked). <br />However, limited "�Peri" hours makes compost pickup inconvenient. <br />The site is open only during weekends in April and the first twa <br />weeks of May. As in the �all, there is a"guard" at the site <br />during the open hours Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:fl0 p.m. and Sunday, <br />Noon - 4:00 p.m. <br />When the site is closed, access can still be gained to the compost <br />piles by walking araund the gate and fence. Same people take <br />advantage of this off hour access, but it is not a convenient way <br />to collect more than a couple of buckets of the compost. City <br />staff report that they have received a few calls to extend the <br />open hours of the site, but the overall demand seems low. <br />There have been some complaints regarding an odor emana�ing irom <br />the site. This odor stems from two sources, turning of compost <br />piles and standing water. <br />1. Turning af the compost piles by City crews. Crews tuxn <br />compost piles in the winter to reduce the negative effects of <br />the compost's smell. <br />2. Standing water near the piles. City crews mounded the site <br />to imprave drainage. However, water is sometimes trapped <br />between campost piles and after a few days, the compost and <br />water begins to smell. <br />The site is currently used far storing surplus park equipment and <br />construction materials. Although City crews are aware such use <br />is not cansistent with campost site practices, this occurs <br />because sufficient storage space is not readily available at <br />other City storage lacations. <br />The Roseville Parks and Recreation Cornmissian recently confix-zned <br />with a State agency that the leaf co�post site is environmentally <br />compatibZe with the Nature Center. However, a City Intern <br />(Environmental Science) has indicated that water run-off from the <br />compost may be causing nutrients to leach into the watershed area <br />of the Nature Center_ <br />4.3. Caunty Yard Waste Compost Sit�s <br />5 <br />��; <br />°�, <br />t <br />� <br />� <br />