08/01/2025
The Menard City Council met today and voted to temporarily lift the burn ban within the city limits under certain restrictions to help citizens dispose of brush and vegetation from flooding.
🗓️ 🗓️Burning within the city limits, following the guidelines listed, will be legal between July 31, 2025 through August 15, 2025.
🌳 🌳Only vegetation may be burned. Tree limbs, brush, leaves, weeds, grass, etc.
💦 💦There must be a water source close to the fire. (Working water hose)
🌞 🌞Burns can only take place during daylight hours.
🧍♂️🧍♀️All fires must be attended until put out. Do not start a fire and leave it.
☠️☠️☠️ Absolutely no burning tires, chemicals, treated wood, or trash. TCEQ and the EPA regulations and enforcement/fines will apply. Electrical insulation, treated lumber, plastics, non-wood construction/demolition materials, heavy oils, asphaltic materials, potentially explosive materials, chemical wastes, and items containing natural or synthetic rubber must not be burned.
🌬️🌬️ No burning if it is windy. Burning shall not be commenced when surface wind speed is predicted to be less than six miles per hour (mph) (five knots) or greater than 23 mph (20 knots) during the burn period. (C) Burning shall not be conducted during periods of actual or predicted persistent low-level atmospheric temperature inversions.
If possible burn at the city brush pit to cut down on the amount of fires around town.
🚨🚔 Law enforcement officers will be enforcing the rules. Breaking the burning rules can carry a local fine of up to $500 and possible TCEQ/EPA fines.
Please use good common sense, it only takes a spark to light up a neighborhood.
