It’s a much slower process than originally thought but the Junction City Public Works Department is continuing to pick up tree branches that fell during last weeks ice storm.

Ray Ibarra, Public Works Director updated JCPost.com on their progress as of Monday afternoon.

“It’s kind of going slow, there’s a lot more tree limbs and trees down than we anticipated I believe,” said Ibarra. “Right now we are in the Green Hills area, we started south first going north, right now we’re in the Green Hills area and get that whole subdivision cleaned up.”

Currently crews are on Vine and Elm Street’s. Once they have been cleared Ibarra hopes to move north on to Pine.

He is reminding citizens that if they have tree limbs that they want picked up by the city they must be moved to the curb. Crews will continue to move north until they have covered the entire city.

The burn pit at the county landfill will also be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday this week and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.