Our debris crews have been working relentlessly for almost 18 months picking up millions of feet of Ipex plastic pipe. For that same amount of time we have been asking Ipex to step and do more for the cleanup, but just as important is to keep this from happening again.
Despite our hard work to cleanup their mess, despite our patience and persistence to meet with Ipex to discuss this, they have refused.
We want a commitment that this won’t happen again in the next flood. Our crews have spent countless hours digging pipes out of the sand, cutting pipe that was entangled in trees and hauling pipes in their boats and on their back, and yet Ipex still refuses to even discuss how to store their material in a way that won’t allow this to all happen again in the next flood.
This event will highlight the extent of the problem, and how we’ve been trying to tackle it. We’ll have a way for you to tell Ipex leadership directly to do better. Come out for a beer and help us pare down this pipe problem!
