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The City of Portland will be offering curbside pick up of Christmas trees beginning on Dec. 26th and ending on January 30th. (12/15/2008)
The City of Portland will be offering curbside pick up of Christmas trees beginning on Friday, December 26th and ending on Friday, Jan. 30th. Residents should put their trees at the curb on their regular trash day to ensure collection.
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No Trash/Recycling Collection on Christmas, Thursday, December 25 or New Year's Day, Thursday, January 1 (12/3/2008)
Public Services Trash and Recycling crews will not be collecting trash or recycling in the City of Portland on Christmas Day, Thursday, December 25, 2008 or on New Year's Day Thursday, January 1, 2009.
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Want to Receive Important Construction Announcements from the City of Portland? (2/27/2008)
Interested in finding out about major construction projects in the City of Portland before you find yourself in a long line of traffic? E-mail us to be added to the subscriber list
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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.
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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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