Monday, March 24, 2014

City Wide Clean Up


Waste Management will begin collecting yard waste materials

City of Wilmington Residents,

Waste Management will begin collecting yard waste materials (i.e. trimmed branches, shrubbery, leaves, grass clippings) April 3, 2014 through November 28, 2014. Yard waste is collected by Waste Management once per week on the same day as the refuse collection. All yard waste items placed out for collection by residents must be at the curb by 6:00 a.m.

Yard waste materials can be placed in “Kraft” paper bags designed and sold specifically for the collection and disposal of yard waste. Waste Management has available for rent or purchase 96-gallon carts to homeowners for the purpose of disposing of yard waste. If you would like obtain a yard waste cart please contact Waste Management directly at 1-800-796-9696.

Branches and brush must be bundled and tied with string or twine (not wire). Branches must be cut into lengths of 4 feet or less, and each branch should be no larger than 4 inches in diameter. Each bundle must not weigh more than 50 pounds.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

ComEd Weather Alert



Date: March 12, 2014 at 7:39:33 AM CDT
At this time there are ~40,000 customers out of service in the service territory. Over 31,000 are in Southern Region. The main contributor will likely be the rain from last night freezing on the wires couple with heavy wet snow and high winds. Expect in some cases for crews to have issues with accessing areas that are unreachable by road.

ComEd is taking the necessary steps to assure crews are ready should power interruptions occur as a result of this severe weather. As a reminder, we have created a number of new communications tools for customers. A couple to highlight are:

1.      Customers can text in their outages and receive updates via text messaging from ComEd. All they need to do is sign up. Visit ComEd.com/Text

2.      We have also made great strides on our ComEd.com outage map. With ComEd’s outage map, customers can view all outages in the ComEd service area at once and zoom in and get details on specific areas, such as the estimated restoration time & status of crews working to resolve problems.  Visit ComEd.com/Map

Municipal Leadership- Please have your list of pre-determined critical facilities containing account numbers ready for use. Be sure your Public Works Department has that information. Should you have a service interruption, please call in a ticket and include the account number.  

When you do call in a ticket to 800-376-7693, be sure to include the following:

1.      Type of facility
2.      Impact
3.      Does it have back up generation?
4.      Include a cell number in the event we need to reach you
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Do not assume we know your location is out of service. If you cannot locate your listing of critical facilities, please email me and I will get those to you ASAP.