Be Nice Treat the Ice

Today marks the launch of “Be Nice Treat the Ice” a new City of Guelph pilot program, that provides residents with access to free de-icing material to keep residential sidewalks safe and clear of ice.
The pilot program is a result of a service review the City conducted last year on sidewalk winter control services.

Yesterday’s Storm as a Wrap-Up Earth Week Activities

I’d like to provide a brief update of Operation’s activities further to yesterday’s storm.
Operations staff were called out at 4:45pm and worked late using loaders to clear debris from roads, assess and make safe tree-related calls, while signal calls from Guelph Police Services were addressed by Traffic.

Snow Angels program launched

The Volunteer Centre of Guelph/Wellington, in agreement with the City of Guelph, has launched a new pilot project to match volunteers with seniors and those with disabilities who cannot afford snow removal services.
The Snow Angels program is a service for Guelph residents who reside in a single dwelling or semidetached home with its own driveway. [...]

Winter storm update for Jan 28th

We have received approx. 12cm of new snow so far today with a couple of hours still to go before this system will be done with us. The Operations Department will initiate a full city plow out beginning at 6pm this evening. The completion of this activity will vary from 12 to 18 hours.
Roads:
Road crews [...]

Residential roads

Due to the milder weather today the snow on some residential roads have started to melt and loosen up which has caused them to be very slushy in places. This has caused us some concern; with the freeze up that is going to occur starting later tonight and last for some time these roads will [...]