Greenfields Residents Association

Waterford City Council is now an official alerter on MapAlerter.com. This means that you can receive alerts directly from the Council as soon as they are issued through MapAlerter.com free of charge.

From the 3rd January 2012 Waterford City Council will be issuing Text Message, Email and Landline alerts for the following categories:

• Water Service Alerts (SMS, Email and Landline alerts for Water Service Interruptions, Burst Mains or Boil Water Notification)
• Scheduled Major Road Works and Road Closures (SMS and Email will include affected areas and offer advice on diversions)
• Flood Alerts (If there is a risk of flooding for a specific area then you will receive SMS and Email alerts immediately)
• Major Road Accidents and Incidents (This includes SMS and Email Alerts for major road accidents which will cause serious traffic disruption)
• Bridge Lifts (Receive SMS and Email Alerts with the date and time of the next scheduled bridge lift on Rice Bridge)
• Other Alerts (These will be used for local events in Waterford City, eg. Festivals, Parades, Spraoi, etc.)

When registering for MapAlerter.com you can identify both your Home and Work locations. This means that you will only receive relevant alerts related to the identified areas rather than alerts for all over the city. For example if you live in Greenfields and work in Ferrybank then you may receive alerts for both locations. However you will only receive alerts for which you have registered.

You can register by clicking here. Registration requires that you supply your mobile number and email address so that MapAlerter.com can deliver alerts to you. You also have the option of adding a Landline number  which will receive a recorded message.

Once you create your account you can always log in and change your setting. If you want to “unregister” for various alerts then this is easily carried out through your alert panel. Similarly if you change your home or work location then you use our interactive web map to accurately map your new location.  This is a free service which is provided by Waterford City Council and MapAlerter.com. This means that there are no registration costs and there are no charges to receive SMS or Emails. Please note that the information that you provide will only be used in connection to supplying you with your chosen alerts.

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Many of us will have a Christmas tree glittering in our window this festive season but what do we do with it once the celebrations are over?  A real Christmas tree is a living resource which can be composted, whereas a plastic tree consists of metal and plastic materials, which cannot be broken down naturally. Waterford City Council would like to remind householders to recycle the thousands of Christmas trees across the city when it comes to the New Year.

Christmas trees can be brought free of charge to the Kilbarry Civic Amenity Site in Waterford City (11am-4pm Monday to Friday and 10am-2pm Saturdays) for recycling. Remember to remove all decorations, lights and stands from you tree before bringing it to the Kilbarry Civic Amenity Site as they can not be composted and damage the shredding equipment. The trees are shredded.  Or you can contact your bin collector to check if you can cut your tree into smaller pieces and dispose of it in your brown bin.

Trees should not be left at the gates of this facility outside of these designated times.

There will be no designated collection points for Christmas trees in the city. Anyone leaving a Christmas tree in a public place can be issued with a €150 litter fine. Any larger cardboard boxes that you can’t fit into your green bin can be brought to Kilbarry Civic Amenity Site free of charge, along with glass, aluminium cans,  clothes, cooking oil, engine oil, batteries, fluorescent lights and waste electronic and electrical equipment. Paint tins and aerosols can be disposed of here for the cost of a €2.50 bin tag for every 5 tins/aerosols.

For more information please contact Environmental Services, Waterford City Council on 051 849938.

Source: Waterford City Council

Around this time every year Waterford City Council receive an increasing number of calls about waste being collected and stored for Halloween bonfires. This waste can be anything from wooden pallets to tyres, mattresses, couches, etc.

If you are concerned about waste being stored in the Greenfields area, please report it to the Waterford City Council Enforcement Team by phoning 051 849563 or emailing environservices@waterfordcity.ie This is especially important in the week leading up to Halloween, as the waste that is accumulating could be used to build a bonfire. The Waterford City Council Enforcement Team uses Waste Management Acts 1996 – 2005 and the Waste Management (Prohibition of Waste Disposal by Burning) Regulations 2009 to prevent waste collecting and being burned. Over the coming weeks, any households that are illegally storing waste in their gardens will be asked to remove the waste and dispose of it appropriately. Waterford City Council will be calling to businesses in the city in order to make them aware of the need to secure any pallets or tyres in the weeks before Halloween.

Should material builds up on green areas before Halloween, Waterford City Council staff will remove this material.  Additionally members of the Greenfields Residents Association and Neighbourhood Watch Team will be actively monitoring the Greenfields area over the Halloween weekend, reporting any buid up of material to Waterford City Council and An Garda Siochana.

Source: Waterford City Council

Waterford City Council would like to announce that from Monday 19th September Oxigen bin tags and waiver tags will no longer be accepted as payment for items at Kilbarry Recycling Centre; payment must now only be made by bin tags bought on site at Kilbarry.

Correct change is needed as change can not be given. The machine can accept €1 and €2 coins along with €5, €10, €20 and €50 notes. Please phone 051-379615 or 051-849563 to enquire about prices.

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Are you on the Register of Electors? You can check at Waterford City Council, Garda Stations, Libraries, Post Offices and on-line at www.checktheregister.ie

If not, there is still time to apply for inclusion in the Supplement and vote at the referendums.

The referendums on Judges Pay, Houses of the Oireachtas Inquiries and the Irish Presidential Election will take place on Thursday, 27th October 2011. You must be an Irish citizen, ordinarily resident in the constituency, and 18 years or over on polling day to vote in the referendums.  You cannot vote unless you are on the Register of Electors. To get on the supplement to the register you must satisfy the requirements set out above. If you are on the register and have moved address recently, you may apply to get on the supplement at your new address.

For more information please visit www.waterfordcity.ie and to check if you are on the Register of Electors click here.

Residents are encouraged to report information regarding frozen pipes during the recent cold snap.  Please see below a survey from Waterford City Council who are trying to establish the extent of the problem across the city.

Should you have experienced frozen pipes it would be much appreciated if you could download, completed return the below survey to Noel Walsh by email (nwalsh@waterfordcity.ie) or by post (Water Services Section, Environmental & Planning Services, Waterford City Council, Menapia Building, The Mall, Waterford).

• Frozen Pipe Survey -  Click Here

Waterford City Council wishes to inform residents that due to the ongoing weather difficulties and the current road conditions, Waterford City Council’s Refuse Service will now not operate until Monday 13th December, unless conditions improve considerably in the meantime.

Collections will resume on Monday 13th December, with double collections of Grey and Green Bin for a full week until normal scheduled collections begin again on Monday 20th. There will be no collection of brown bins until Monday 20^th December.  Waterford City Council realise that your bin may already be full.  So when the service resumes, they will also collect black bags containing mixed household waste and see through plastic bags with dry recyclables which accompany tagged bins. Until Monday 20th^th December, customers may also take household waste in black bags to Kilbarry Civic Amenity Site, with one black bag per customer being free of charge.

Greenfields next refuse collection (Black & Green Bin) will be

Thursday 16th December.

The Greenfields Neighbourhood Watch is a crime prevention programme aimed at get-ting all residents actively involved in observing and reporting suspicious activities.

As part of the Neighbourhood Watch initiative our estate is divided into four neighbourhoods; Beech Court, Grove, Park and Drive. The Greenfields Residents Association have created an “Essential Contacts” list for each resident. Should you notice anything suspicious or be a victim of crime or anti-social behavior please use the “Essential Contacts” list to identify whom you should in-form. Each “Essential Contacts” list contains information and contact numbers for your local Street Coordinator, Area Coordinator, Community Liaison Garda along with other important contacts.

To download a copy of your neighbourhood’s “Essential Contacts” list please click on the appropriate link below:

• NW Essential Contacts Beech Court
• NW Essential Contacts Beech Grove
• NW Essential Contacts Beech Park
• NW Essential Contacts Beech Drive

Waterford City Council recently announced a new Wheelie Bin SMS Alert service.  This service is free of charge and will keep residents informed and up to date about refuse collections, changes to bin collection times, delays etc.

To subscribe to the free Waterford City Council Wheelie Bin SMS Alert service click here or visit the Waterford City Council website at www.waterfordcity.ie

All residents are advised that the City Council Refuse Collection schedule for 2010 is now available for download by clicking here.  Should you wish to contact the Environmental Services Team at Waterford City Council please e-mail environservices@waterfordcity.ie or telephone 051 849563.