A RIVERLAND council will begin collecting mattresses and e-waste around the district, after a number of requests from community members.
Berri Barmera Council will undertake the collection over a three-week period beginning in late-May.
Council CEO Karyn Burton said residents would soon receive further information about the pick-up.
“It will be up to three mattresses per household as well as e-waste,” she said.
“It was probably the biggest comment coming out of our hard-waste collection earlier last year: that people were disappointed that they could not put mattresses and e-waste out.
“We had some funding left over from the Drought Communities Program (DCP) for the hard-waste collection project that has allowed us to now go back and do a second rounding focusing on that e-waste and mattresses, which are quite expensive to get rid of normally.”
Ms Burton said council was working on completing several other DCP-funded projects, after receiving a six-month extension to complete the projects last December.
These projects include reconstruction of the Berri river-front swim steps, renewal of the Monash Adventure Park Maze, extension of the lake-front path in Barmera, and a series of wellbeing events.
“We had to get the extension until the end of June on some of the projects because of contractor shortage,” she said.
“Particularly with our swim steps on the Berri river front, we couldn’t get concreters to do that.
“As it turns out, the extension has allowed us to do additional hard-waste collection, additional lighting around the district and a few other things.
“Our wellbeing events have also been spread out through to the end of June – because of COVID a lot of them had to be cancelled or deferred.”