We know many of you have spent the weekend continuing to clean-up in the aftermath of Tuesday’s storm. We encourage any residents in need of assistance to contact us at swhitney@collegeparkmd.gov or lbesters@collegeparkmd.gov so we might direct them to available resources. We’d like to take a moment to thank our Public Works, Public Services and Communications teams and City Manager Kenny Young on their phenomenal response to the storm. They worked around the clock for days to keep us safe and get us back on our feet.

As of Saturday afternoon, there were still several residents without Comcast or Verizon services, and the City had not yet been given an estimate as to when those services would be restored. We will inquire as to the reason for the delay.

All streets are passable except for the Blackfoot Road and 49^th Ave intersection where we need Verizon and Comcast to clear the understory communication lines; Pepco has cleared their lines.

To help with clean-up, the City has loosened the rules around collecting woody debris through July 29th as follows:

Due to the extreme amount of tree debris created by Tuesday’s storm, the requirements to prepare woody debris for curbside collection are relaxed now through July 29, 2022. Please cut large diameter branches & limbs into sections no more than 8 feet in length. Please contact the City’s Department of Public Works (240.487.3590) to let us the size and quantity of the material you set out the curb, as this will dictate the equipment sent to perform the collection.