• Eliminate sources of cold air near water lines by repairing broken windows, insulating walls, closing off crawl spaces and eliminating drafts near doors.

• Locate your main water shut-off valve. If a pipe freezes or bursts, shut the water off immediately.

• Protect your pipes and water meter. Wrap exposed pipes with insulation or use electrical heat tracing wire. Keep the lid to the meter pit closed tightly and let any snow that falls cover it. Snow acts as insulation.

• Allow a small trickle of water to run from the faucet overnight to keep pipes from freezing. The cost of the extra water is low compared to the cost to repair a broken pipe.

• Open cabinet doors to expose pipes to warmer room temperatures to help keep them from freezing.

• Shut off the water immediately if the pipes freeze. Don't attempt to thaw frozen pipes unless the water is shut off. Freezing can often cause unseen cracks in pipes or joints.

• Apply heat to the frozen pipe by warming the air around it, or by applying heat directly to a pipe. You can use a hair dryer, space heater or hot water. Be sure not to leave space heaters unattended.

• Do not use kerosene heaters or open flames to thaw pipes inside your home.

• Once the pipes have thawed, turn the water back on slowly and check for cracks and leaks.

• Collection will only be made on streets, not alleys.
• Foreign material in leaf piles can cause injury to the workers and mechanical breakdown of equipment. Please remove materials such as rocks, toys, boards, tree trimmings, etc.
• Please trim street trees to a height of 9' above the cartway to allow leaf trucks, school buses, snowplows, and emergency vehicles to pass with ease.
• Please place basketball nets behind the curb to avoid contact with the leaf picking equipment and snowplows.