One month after Hurricane Beryl, customers still need debris picked up

HOUSTON - The City of Houston’s public works department and solid waste are still working to get our community back to normal one month after Hurricane Beryl.

Fox 26s Leslie DelasBour spoke with Meredith Powell the President of the Monarch Oaks Civic Association who is frustrated that her 95-year-old neighbor Harry Cain still has to look at a large pile of debris.  

"I did call in the Monday of the hurricane and told them we are going to need a pick up but i have not seen or heard anything since," Cain said. 

Cain says looking at the pile of debris for the last few weeks has been depressing. 

"That and being out of electricity for 6 to 7 days but this hurt worse than anything," Cain said. "I intended to call the city council lady today but it’s been 5 weeks, nothing has been moved. I’ve had trees taken out and they are just piled up," 

Powell says many other elderly people live in her community who are looking for assistance in removing debris from Beryl.

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"Who don’t have family members to help and we try to step up as much as we can to bring awareness to the situation," said Powell. 

We reached out to the City of Houston solid waste management which is removing debris from private property.

 So far, they’ve picked up 32 thousand total loads over the last 25 days according to their tracker. 

The City of Houston Public Works says they are not still cleaning up after Beryl. Traffic signal requests for repairs are part of normal operations and 311 requests. 

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We reached out to Public Works regarding the condition of traffic signals since the storm, and they told us. 

"Houston Public Works (HPW) manages 2,500 intersections with traffic signals. As a result of Hurricane Beryl, 1,100 traffic signals lost power and 400 additional signals were flashing. More than 750 traffic signals suffered serious damage (turned mast arms, damage to signal heads, etc.) Once power is restored to an intersection by CenterPoint, the lights will begin flashing red. HPW crews must manually reset the traffic control box at the specific location. Please remind the public to treat any location with traffic signal outages, flashing red lights, or missing stop signs as a 4-way stop. The community can help us by reporting any damaged traffic signals or missing street signs to 311." said Erin Jones, Erin Jones Acting Communications Director, Public Information Officer, City of Houston, Houston Public Works