After Hurricane Ida, debris pickup in St. Tammany Parish to push into October
Those debris piles that began collecting across St. Tammany shortly after Hurricane Ida ploughed through the heavily wooded parish won’t completely disappear until the end of October instead of the end of September as parish officials originally hoped.
FEMA had given local governments a 30-day deadline to get 100% reimbursement for debris removal costs, but the agency has extended that by two weeks, and the new deadline is Oct. 14.
John Welborn, chief administrative officer for the city of Slidell, says that the city expects to have the pickup completed by the new deadline……..