If you have brush left over from the July 15 tornado on your parking strip, there’s good news.

Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) officials last week agreed to help Kewanee’s city crews haul away the brush so it can be safely burned.

“They have provided us with six trucks and drivers to go with our effort to clean up,” City Manager Gary Bradley said Monday.

The IDOT people and vehicles started Monday loading brush into trucks from the parking lot on the former Kewanee Hospital site on West Division Street. The state transportation crew was assisted by a city employee operating a loader that dumped the brush into the trucks.

Once the parking lot has been cleared, the crews will start going through residential neighborhoods, Bradley said.

He said city officials remain in contact with IDOT people, asking for any additional equipment and personnel that might be available in the future.

The plan is to haul all of the brush to a large empty area south of Pleasant View Cemetery, where it will be burned.