Rouge Watershed District  information.
D.P.W. 2008 CALENDAR DATES

January 2008

January 1 - No trash pick up-1 day delay
January 18 – Brush pick up ends

February 2008

February 19 - Beautification meeting
February 21 - Recycling meeting

March 2008

March 27- Healthy Lawn Seminar @ Oak Park City Hall 13600 Oak Park Blvd

 

April 2008

April   7- Yard Waste & Brush Pick-up Begins*
April 15- Beautification Meeting
April 17- Recycling Meeting
April 11- April 20  Haul your own Junk Away Days
April 25- Arbor Day Tree Planting

May 2008

May 20- Beautification Meeting
May 30- June 8 – Haul your own Junk Away Day
May 25- Flower Sale
May 26-   Memorial Day -  Trash pick up - 1 day delay

June 2008

June 17- Beautification Meeting
June 19- Recycling Meeting

 July 2008

July 4- No trash pick up - 1 day delay

August 2008

August 21 – Recycling Meeting

September 2008

September 1- Labor Day - trash delay 1 day
Sept. 5th-14^th - Haul your own Junk Away Days
September 16- Beautification Meeting

 October 2008

October 2 - Beautification Award Ceremony
October 6 - Leaf pick up begins
October 16-Recycling Meeting
October 31- Spooktacular

November 2008

November 6 - Environmagic
November 27 - Thanksgiving Day - No yard waste pick up - Trash delay 1 day

December 2008

December 5 - Leaf pick up ends
December 19 – Yard waste ends *
December 16 - Beautification Meeting
December 18 - Recycling Meeting
December 25 - Trash delay 1 day

If you live WEST of Coolidge, your collection day is THURSDAY

If you live EAST of Coolidge, your collection day is FRIDAY

• Please set out your trash, recycling and yard waste no later than 7:00 AM collection day.

• Collection trucks may service your street at a different time of day.

• NEW! Barbeque grills, lawn mowers, bicycles and other smaller metal items will now be collected for recycling with other large metal appliances. Please place these metal items next to your recycle bin.

Here is the map

Yard Waste Pick-Up

Guidelines for yard waste pick-up:

• Containers can not exceed 60 pounds.

• Containers can be 30 gallon brown kraft bags or 32 gallon trash cans with city furnished yard waste stickers applied.

• Yard waste is grass, leaves, weeds, and twigs smaller than ¼” diameter.

Leaf Pick-Up

Guidelines for leaf pick up:

• Leaves need to be raked to the gutter line of the road.

• Leaf pick up “generally” occurs once a week on every street in October and every 2 weeks in November & December.

• Residents can only place leaves, not grass clippings or sticks in the piles

River Rouge Web site – www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/rouge.mi

24 hour hotline – Oakland County hotline will field and respond to environmental complaints regarding illegal dumping and suspicious discharges – 248-858-0931

information request – 248-858-0958 or envreq@co.oakland.mi.us

Clean Water Campaign –“ Seven Simple Steps” – http://www.semcog.org/OursToProtect/7SimpleSteps/7StepstoCleanWater.htm

Latest News

• For disposal of logs larger than 6” in diameter,
  please contact D.P.W. at 691-7497 for details.

• REMINDER: Yard waste can only be placed in brown bags or 32 gallon garbage cans with a yard waste sticker. Plastic bags are not allowed.

• REMINDER: Residents are allowed to place no more than 10-12 bags of rubbish at the curb each week. Amounts exceeding this limit will not be picked up and a special paid pick up will have to be scheduled with Waste Management.

• Large branches, no longer than 8ft long and no wider that 6inches in diameter, can be neatly stacked curbside with the cut ends facing the street for chipping.  Branches smaller than a ½ inch to 1 ½ inch in diameter AND less that 4ft MUST be TIED in bundles weighing NO MORE THAN 60LBS for curbside pickup.  NO TREE STUMPS, LOGS, or ROOTS.

• Streets Division
  The Streets Division’s major responsibility is construction, operation and maintenance of over 86 miles of residential and major streets and City sidewalks. Supervision of the rubbish and disposal service of the City and traffic sign installation are also responsibilities of the Street Division.
  

• Water Supply
  This division is responsible for the construction, operation, and maintenance of City water mains, service connections, and all other facilities pertaining to the City water supply system, including meter installation. It has charge of all pumping facilities and is responsible for the pumping of water into and through the City Water Distribution system. All of Oak Park is served by public water, sanitary sewer, and storm sewer facilities. Water is supplied to Oak Park by the City of Detroit.

• Parks and Forestry
  This division is in charge of the control and regulation of the planting of trees, and of the planting, development, maintenance, management and operation of parks, boulevards, municipal parking lots and markets.

• Motor Pool
  This department is responsible for the purchase and maintenance of the City’s fleet.

Recycling Program

SOCRRA Recycling Information

The City of Oak Park has been providing curb-side recycling in conjunction with garbage pick-up since 1993. The goal of the program is to reach a 60% participation rate. Presently, a large number of items are accepted into the recycling program, including newspapers, magazines, catalogs, brown paper bags, telephone books, plastic jugs and bottles, glass bottles and jars, metal cans, pie tins, paint and aerosol cans, and household batteries. More products may be added as markets expand.

The City received a grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to create a multilingual recycling education program. Flyers were distributed in Russian and Arabic to inform non-English speaking Oak Park residents about recycling. The program received statewide and national recognition. The City of Oak Park received a certificate of achievement from the Michigan Municipal League and also received an Honorable Mention from the Michigan Recycling Coalition. National recognition was given by Public Technologies, Incorporated through a program entitled "Winning Solutions '94," in which public entities are cited for their achievements.

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