It could take until Thanksgiving to remove the mountain of trash that dominates the roadside at the entrance to Everglades City.

Surrounded by a chain-link fence near the center of town, the mound became a temporary dumping point for all the belongings, including mattresses and other furniture, ruined by Hurricane Irma.

The mound started shrinking slowly this week as more trucks were on hand to haul the rotting refuse out of the county.

The county’s target date to have the trash removed is mid- to late-November.

"It's not getting any bigger," said Mayor Howie Grimm. "We're seeing about five or six semis a day coming through to haul it away."

Piles of trash and scattered possessions still line most of the city’s streets.

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Tired of looking at the branches in his front yard, Dwight Brown, a stone crab fisherman, hauled them to a vacant lot across the street.

“I don’t know if they’re just slow or what,” Brown said. “But we did start to see trucks come by. Just two or three at a time.”

The view is worse in nearby Plantation Island and Chokoloskee, where more than a month after the storm entire mobile homes still lay crumpled by the side of the road along with all the furniture that was once inside them.

“Everyone is getting frustrated,” said Rob Sykora, who is living with his wife, Carol, in a pop-up camper parked in his driveway while they gut what remains of their flooded home.

Sykora said the two lost almost everything they owned during the storm, either from flood damage or the mold that followed. He has given up on waiting for help from FEMA and has been waiting weeks for his insurance to come through.

“We just don’t know what to do,” Carol Sykora said. “It’s devastating. Everything is getting worse because of the mold. The thing I hope I can keep is our 100-year-old bed, my grandma’s old four-poster.”

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Josh Lewis, of Chokoloskee, said he was happy to see debris trucks start to come through Wednesday.

“It’s definitely been slow, but I’m sure they had to start all the way up near Copeland,” Lewis said.

More and more debris-clearing trucks continue to arrive in Collier County as smaller communities with less damage finish work, said Margi Hapke, a county spokeswoman.

“It’s starting to speed up,” Hapke said. “So we have 225 debris-removal units in our area. As of Sept. 22, we had 12.”

The county has collected about 900,000 cubic yards of debris so far. Irma left behind an estimated 4.2 million cubic yards.

“If today goes as well as the last two days, then we’ll hit the million cubic yard mark by (Thursday),” Hapke said. “That gets us a quarter of the way home.”

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