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No Curbside Trash/Recycling in Portland on President’s Day (2/3/2012)
The Department of Public Services Solid Waste crews will not collect trash or recycling on President’s Day, Monday, February 20th, 2012.
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Christmas Tree Disposal & Drop Off Locations 2011 (12/29/2011)
Beginning December 27th 2011, Portland Public Services crews will collect Christmas trees curbside with the trash and recycling.
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Repair Work on Back Cove Trail Today (11/21/2011)
PORTLAND, Maine – Today, City of Portland Public Services crew will repair a section of the Back Cove Trail from the Eastern end of Tukey’s Bridge to the 3 mile marker and soccer fields near Preble Street Extension from 7:00 AM and 3:00 PM.
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E-card Changes at Riverside Recycling Facility (6/16/2009)
Beginning July 1, 2009, there will be changes to the City e-card program at Riverside Recycling Facility. These include:
* E-card holders will have free disposal of up to 10 bulky items per year such as furniture, non-freon appliances, mattresses and box springs, gas grills and outdoor equipment as well as limited quantites of yard waste and hazardous waste
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Find Your Trash and Recycling Day (2/23/2007)
Have a question on when your trash or recycling is picked up?
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what is enhanced 911 addressing and why are we doing it?
Why Do Enhanced 911 Addressing
Frequently-Asked-Questions
Maps
- Under State law it is required that a master database
be maintained that connects physical street addresses to telephone numbers, so
emergency call-takers can immediately know a caller’s address, even if the
person calling is unable to speak or hangs up too soon.
- For this to work
properly, all addresses need to be physical addresses, for example, 14 Elm
Street or 440 Eastern Promenade.
Addresses such as Rural Route addresses or Post Office boxes are not
physical addresses because they do not explain where someone is physically on
the earth.
Addressing systems also need to follow a common
and expected system, so that a person trying to find an address has a common
framework to work with. Ambiguity needs to be eliminated and everything should
be named and signed properly.
- Addressing
needs to be as spatially exact as possible, so next-generation computer mapping
services can be utilized to maximum effect. Call centers and even emergency vehicles are moving towards having
computer mapping that plots the caller’s location on a map relative to the
responder.
Maps
Cliff Island E911
Cushing Island E911
Great Diamond Island E911
Little Diamond Island E911
Peaks Island E911
Leslie Kaynor
Portland E911 Addressing Officer
(207) 756-8346
lmk@portlandmaine.gov
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