Metro Waste Authority helping communities replace trees destroyed by derecho Tuesday, April 20, 2021 11:09 AM Metro Waste Authority is helping communities in Central Iowa replace trees that were lost in last summer’s derecho. In a news release, officials with the agency announced that 2,950 tree seedlings will be arriving in Alleman, Altoona, Ankeny, Bondurant, Clive, Des Moines, Mitchellville, Runnels, Urbandale and West Des Moines by May 7. The seedlings are provided by Metro Waste Authority’s Tree Replacement Program, which was founded last October in respon...