Responsibilities:

Description:

• Lower Cedar Lake Rd and Latus Rd are seasonal roads and are not plowed during the winter months
• There are 72 miles of roads to be plowed and sanded in the winter months.
• 44 1/2 miles of roads are owned by the Town of Paris
• 27 1/2 miles of roads are County Roads ( the County Pays the Town to Plow and Sand their roads)
• Plowing or snow blowing into the street is unsafe and against the law
• Town plows will remove snow as close to the mailboxes as possible, however, the removal around the box is the homeowner's responsibility.

• Collection begins the week after Christmas. Please no metal or plastic, as the trees are chipped.

• Brush pick-up usually takes place the first week of May and will continue the first week of each month thru October.
• Brush should be no larger than 4 inches in diameter and 10 feet long. Please pile parallel to the road.Limited to 1 truck load per resident.
• Grass clipping will not be accepted.
• Dirt, rocks, glass,wood, metal, paper corrugated boxes, stumps, root balls or logs will not be accepted.
• All professional contractors are responsible for the removal of all their customers debris.
• All town roads are swept to remove sand and debris starting in March if weather permits thru April.
• During summer months the department repairs infrastructure including:
• catch basins, manholes, patch pot holes etc.
• Paving and blacktopping roads, approximately 2 miles per year.
• Seals 1 to 2 miles of roads per year to improve their life.
• The Highway crew digs ditches, replaces pipes, repairs guide posts, replaces signs, mows 44 miles of roads sides and maintains the Paris Town Parks, Mowing, Pools and equipment.

• Leaf pick-up
• Leaves need to be raked to the road's edge to be pick-up. Please do not rake in ditches. October thru the middle of November.
• NO brush pick-up during leaf season.
• Winter preparations are underway. Sand and salt are stockpiled and plows and sanders are installed on trucks.