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CBRM MUNICIPAL SERVICES UPDATE - February 9, 2024

February 9, 2024

- Solid Waste curbside collection and solid waste facilities will be closed on Saturday, February 10. If your collection is scheduled for Saturday, February 10, it will be done on Monday, February 12. CBRM does not usually do Monday collection. This is a special collection for the collection missed on Saturday, February 10.

- Municipal facilities including City Hall, Arenas, etc. will be closed on Saturday, February 10.

- Transit Cape Breton and HandiTrans will not be operating on Saturday, February 10.

- Residents are asked to follow the directions of the Municipality’s State of Local Emergency. The State of Emergency will expire on Sunday, February 11 at 2:00 pm.

- If you are able to offer assistance with snow clearing, contact the coordination centre with your information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

STATE OF LOCAL EMERGENCY INFO:

- Residents are directed to shelter in place and advised to clear snow from their home’s entryways, walkways and driveway to facilitate home access. Residents should also remove snow from ventilation points at your home. If you are able to assist others with snow clearing, do so in your own neighbourhood.

- Do not travel. Roadways are being cleared for emergency response and travel of essential workers. The process is slow and plows require several passes to deal with the significant accumulation. With the State of Local Emergency, Police are telling people to stay off the road unless it's absolutely necessary. Any vehicles obstructing or interfering with snow removal will be ticketed and towed at the owner’s expense.

- Motor Vehicle Act (202): Failing to comply with temporary regulations (Winter Parking Regulations) to cover emergencies or special conditions.

- Motor Vehicle Act (139): Parking in manner that might interfere with snow removal or winter maintenance.

- The focus in the day ahead is to clear roads for the passage of emergency vehicles and facilitate emergency response. Road widening efforts are underway and may result in the closure of some sections of roadway while work is done. Roadway widening is critical to the resumption of services such as transit and curbside collection. The municipality is requesting that non-essential services remain closed until the roads are again considered safe to travel.

CBRM MUNICIPAL SERVICES UPDATE February 8, 2024

- Solid Waste curbside collection and solid waste facilities will be closed on Friday, February 9.

- Municipal facilities including City Hall, Arenas, etc. will be closed on Friday, February 9.

- Transit Cape Breton will not be operating on Friday, February 9.

Residents are asked to follow the directions of the Municipality’s State of Local Emergency.
The State of Emergency will expire on Sunday, February 11 at 2:00 pm.

- Residents are directed to shelter in place and advised to clear snow from their home’s entryways, walkways and driveway to facilitate home access. Residents should also remove snow from ventilation points at your home. If you are able to assist others with snow clearing, do so in your own neighbourhood.

CBRM MUNICIPAL SERVICES UPDATE Wednesday, Feb 7 5:00 pm

- Solid Waste curbside collection and solid waste facilities will be closed on Thursday, February 8.
- Municipal facilities including City Hall, Arenas, etc. will be closed on Thursday, February 8.
- Transit Cape Breton and Handi Trans will not be operating on Thursday, February 8.

MUNICIPAL UPDATE - Wednesday, Feb. 7, 9:30 am

If you are cleared and can safely access main roadways, more and more grocers and hardware stores are able to open to replenish your supplies. Check on your neighbours who are not able to do the same.

Do what you can to help in your neighbourhood. Kudos to the Canadian Coast Guard College Cadets and others who are out in neighbourhoods today and tomorrow clearing doorways, walkways and driveways.

If you don’t have a plan in place to clear access to your home, please fill in this form so we can track the needs in the community: https://cbrm.frontlinesvc.com/app/ask

More help is arriving daily. If you are arriving in CBRM to assist, send an email with the details of how you can help and our 311 Centre will coordinate and deploy you to areas needing clearing. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you are wondering who is responsible plowing your road (CBRM or Government of Nova Scotia), here’s the link to check for contact info: https://www.cbrm.ns.ca/who-plows-my-road.html

Transit, Solid Waste and Municipal facilities are not open today.

CBRM MUNICIPAL SERVICES UPDATE February 6, 2024

February 6, 2024

CBRM MUNICIPAL SERVICES UPDATE February 6, 2024

- Solid Waste curbside collection and solid waste facilities will be closed on Wednesday, February 7.

- Municipal facilities including City Hall, Arenas, etc. will be closed on Wednesday, February 7.

- Transit Cape Breton will not be operating on Wednesday, February 7.

PROGRESS UPDATE AND ADVISORY:

Public works plows and crews have been actively clearing the way to get first responders on the job and functional - Police, Fire, EHS, medical personnel. As of today, progress is being made to restore these critical services.

This process is slow, with many immediate response issues diverting resources (i.e. a fire response, a fuel supply or water supply response, or medical emergency requiring urgent, specific home access.)

The next priority is widening main roadways and making first passes on side roads. This will take days.

Residents: Clear your doorways and walkways because if an emergency response is needed at your home, shovelling to your door would be very time consuming or not possible. Call 911 for emergency. EHS has updated that patients can call 1-888-346-9999 to coordinate transfers for scheduled medical appointments.

As clearing efforts progress, more contractors with machinery will become available for driveway clearing.

Resources are on the way from other levels of government. The municipality is awaiting specifics. Large machinery does not move long distances easily. Some types of regular snow clearing equipment are not effective on this volume of snow. The municipality has asked for boots on the ground to assist with private property snow clearing. If you do not expect to have assistance to help you with your property, please enter your information into the form here:

CONTACT 311 BY FORM

This will assist the municipality to provide specific location and contact info to other levels of government for assistance.
If calling from outside CBRM, the number is 902-563-2276/ 1-833-504-2276.

If you have successfully cleared your own home access, please consider assisting in your neighbourhood where possible, including clearing fire hydrants near your home.

STATE OF LOCAL EMERGENCY:

Residents are asked to follow the directions of the Municipality’s State of Local Emergency.

CBRM MUNICIPAL SERVICES UPDATE February 5, 2024

Solid Waste curbside collection and solid waste facilities will be closed on Tuesday, February 6.

Municipal facilities including City Hall, Arenas, etc. will be closed on Tuesday, February 6.

Transit Cape Breton will not be operating on Tuesday, February 6.

Residents are asked to follow the directions of the Municipality’s State of Local Emergency.

- Residents are directed to shelter in place and advised to clear snow from their home’s entryways, walkways and driveway to facilitate home access. Residents should also remove snow from ventilation points at your home. If you are able to assist others with snow clearing, do so in your own neighbourhood.

CBRM State of Local Emergency

February 4, 2024

SYDNEY, NS - The Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayor and Council have approved a declaration of a State of Local Emergency to address the record snowfall impacting the municipality.

Residents are directed to shelter in place and advised to clear snow from their home’s entryways, walkways and driveway to facilitate home access. Residents should also remove snow from ventilation points at your home.

Do not travel. Roadways are being cleared for emergency response and travel of essential workers. The process is slow and plows require several passes to deal with the significant accumulation. With the State of Local Emergency, Police are telling people to stay off the road unless it's absolutely necessary. Any vehicles obstructing or interfering with snow removal will be ticketed and towed at the owner’s expense.

The focus in the day ahead is to clear roads for the passage of emergency vehicles and facilitate emergency response. Schools and most stores and services will not be open. Transit Cape Breton will not be operating on Monday, February 5. City Hall and municipal buildings will not be open on Monday, February 5. The municipality is requesting that non-essential services remain closed until the roads are again considered safe to travel.

Additional snow removal resources have been requested from the provincial government.

STORM - for latest information visit CBRM Facebook Page

Feb 2-5 storm. Follow CBRM Facebook page for latest postings and information.

https://www.facebook.com/CBRMgov/

Municipal Services Update - February 4

Tranist Cape Breton is not operating today, Sunday, Feb 4.

Municipal Services Update - February 2

Feb 2

3:30 pm

Curbside Collection for Saturday, February 3 is cancelled due to the forecasted weather.

The Northside drop off location is also closed on Saturday, February 3.

Extra garbage bags and green cart material will be collected on your area’s next regularly scheduled collection day. Blue bags will be collected on your area's next regularly scheduled blue bag collection week.Residents who have questions are encouraged to phone the hotline (902) 567-1337.

Educators are available to respond to inquiries 8:30am to 4pm Monday to Friday.

Calling after hours, you can phone 311.

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