HEBRON —  Selectmen at their meeting Monday said that unexploded fireworks were discovered at the town’s transfer station and that disposing of them at the transfer station is clearly not allowed. 

“Most operations manuals and the solid waste rules exclude explosives from the type of waste that can be accepted,” said Selectman Dan Eichorn, during the meeting. 

Chairman Dick Deans said that monitoring the disposal of fireworks may not be easy.

“Somebody may come in there and say, ‘what do I do with these?’ and somebody else might come in and just have it wrapped up in their regular trash, and away it goes,” he said.

“It’s a concern,” he said, “now that they [the transfer station] are getting more of them.”

“Why don’t we just say, ‘we don’t accept it.’ How’s that?” suggested Selectman Jim Reid.

The other selectmen agreed with Reid, but Eichorn suggested the town “be responsive to other people’s concerns,” especially those who do not know where else to dispose of unlit fireworks.

“Apparently no one from the state is stepping up with saying that ‘these are the rules,'” said Eichorn. “I don’t know what to tell people if they come in and say, ‘what do I do with my unexploded fireworks?'”

Reid said suggested that people keep them at home and contact the State Fire Marshal’s Office. Selectmen agreed that this is the best option, currently.

Eichorn said that the town would take care of the problem, except for the fact that it “doesn’t have anything in its operations manual, because they [fireworks] weren’t legal at the time.”

He said that the town would have to modify its transfer station operations manual to make it  “explicitly clear” that the town does not accept unspent fireworks. “I will add that to my list of things to do,” he said.

In other news, selectmen said that they did not hear of any complaints at the Redneck Rodeo and that the music wasn’t as loud as they presumed, either.

“I was anticipating it being loud like the [Redneck] Olympics were,” said Eichorn. “Those I could hear pretty clearly. I didn’t hear much this time around.”

“I didn’t hear anything negative,” he added, “nothing from the ambulance or police or anything.”

Reid, however, was concerned whether Harold Brooks’ grandstands should have been inspected, even though they were built into a banking.

“If they start pulling out of the banking and collapsing, because they weren’t attached to the banking right, the guys on the bottom are going to get crushed,” he said.

In the past, Brooks said that, unless grandstands are built higher than five rows, an inspection isn’t necessary.

Selectmen also said that grinding and paving will begin on Allen Road on Monday, July 16. Work will also be done on Ben Stone, Bryant, Goodrich and Sturtevant Hill Roads in the near future.