April 2025 - Posts
Save the dates! The City’s Adopt-a-Block Community Cleanup Days are back, Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24, 2025. Residents, local businesses, and schools can adopt a block of space around their neighbourhood, office, playground, trail system, or other public space to clean up the waste revealed by melting snow. The initiative was introduced last year with positive results.
“Over two days, we had 10 organizations, 7 businesses, and 128 individual residents and youth participate,” says Meagan Baranyk, the City’s Community Programs Manager. “We saw laneways, parks, boulevards, and neighbourhoods transformed. We’re hoping for even more participation this year. Helping to reduce and prevent litter is the responsibility of every resident and property owner.”
Registration for Adopt-a-Block begins May 1, 2025. Once again, the City will be providing cleanup kits with gloves and garbage bags to registered teams requesting supplies. Environmental Services will also pick-up all of the garbage collected on May 23 and 24. Each team will be given a designated drop-off location where collected garbage can be left and quickly picked up by City staff.
“We want to make this process as simple as possible,” adds Baranyk. “When the snow finally melts, there’s often a large amount of litter left behind. This shouldn’t be the case, and we want to reinforce that properly disposing of waste is essential for the well-being of the community, but we can also look at this as an opportunity to work together. We all deserve clean parks and public spaces.”
The City’s annual Residential Curbside Bulk Item Collection Program also happens in May. Between May 5 and May 16, 2025 residents can dispose of large, bulky items that are not accepted through regular waste collection. The program includes one free load of residential household waste per property at the Deloro Landfill Site during the same dates. Leaf and yard waste collection also runs May 5 – May 16, 2025 when Public Works will deploy a dump truck and chipper along residential streets to mulch branches, tree trimmings, and organic plant material from gardening and yard maintenance. It’s coordinated with bulk item collection to make it easier for residents to remember collection dates.
For more information on Adopt-a-Block Community Cleanup Days, Residential Curbside Bulk Item Collection or Leaf and Yard Waste Collection, visit: https://www.timmins.ca/our_services/waste_recycling_services.
Amanda Dyer
Whitney-Tisdale Pump Station #1 Overflow Report
Address: 202 Goldrush Street
Start date: April 14, 2025
Start time: 2:50pm
End date: April 14, 2025
End time: 7:02 PM
Volume by-passed: 392.78 m3
Support Our Wastewater System:
During spring melt and heavy rain events, the increased water entering the sewer system can exceed the capacity of our wastewater system, leading to potential overflows. Residents can help by conserving water, managing runoff on their properties, and keeping our pipes clear—no wipes in the pipes! Learn more about how the system works and what actions you can take at www.timmins.ca.
Cyndee Villeneuve
Mattagami Water Pollution Control Plant Secondary Bypass Report
Address: 551 Airport Road
Start date: April 14, 2025
Start time: 12:41pm
End date: April 15, 2025
End time: 9:05 AM
Volume by-passed: 9,652.4m3
Support Our Wastewater System:
During spring melt and heavy rain events, the increased water entering the sewer system can exceed the capacity of our wastewater system, leading to potential overflows. Residents can help by conserving water, managing runoff on their properties, and keeping our pipes clear—no wipes in the pipes! Learn more about how the system works and what actions you can take at www.timmins.ca.
Cyndee Villeneuve
Whitney-Tisdale Pump Station #2 Overflow Report
Address: 57 Evans Street
Start date: April 14, 2025
Start time: 12:41pm
End date: April 14, 2025
End time: 8:09 PM
Volume by-passed: 985.88 m3
Support Our Wastewater System:
During spring melt and heavy rain events, the increased water entering the sewer system can exceed the capacity of our wastewater system, leading to potential overflows. Residents can help by conserving water, managing runoff on their properties, and keeping our pipes clear—no wipes in the pipes! Learn more about how the system works and what actions you can take at www.timmins.ca.
Cyndee Villeneuve
Timmins, ON – City of Timmins Public Works is declaring changes to the snow removal schedule for the week of April 14, 2025.
Due to the recent melt over the weekend and rainfall, an assessment has been completed on the remaining roads that were scheduled for snow removal. Snow removal will be cancelled in the following areas:
Day Shift – TUESDAY, APRIL 15:
Timmins West: Meadow Ln.
Day Shift – WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16:
Timmins South: Wende
Becky Cashmore
The City’s residential Curbside Bulk Item Collection is back! From Monday, May 5 to Friday, May 16, 2025, the City’s contractor will be collecting bulky waste items that do not fit inside an approved residential garbage container, or cannot be collected during regular waste collection.
Items like bulky toys, rolled up tarps and carpets, couches, and small furnishings can be placed curbside with a maximum allowed volume of material no greater than 4 feet (1.2 m) wide, by 8 feet (2.4 m) long and 2 feet (0.6 m) high. Roughly the size of a standard half (1/2) pick-up truck cab. Mattresses and box springs can be discarded, but must be securely wrapped in plastic in order to be collected.
Each residential dwelling (based on address) will also be allowed to dump one free load at the Deloro Landfill between May 5 and May 16, 2025. Residents must provide proof of address. Tipping fees will be waived on one (1) load only. For residents without access to a vehicle, they can accompany the driver and provide proof of address, or download and fill out a form authorizing another resident to drop off their waste material. The form is available on the City of Timmins website.
Residents are reminded to have their material at the curb no more than two (2) days prior to their collection date. Collection crews will only do one (1) pass through each area. It’s also important to review the list of banned materials. Any materials not eligible for collection will not be picked up, and it will be the responsibility of the property owner to remove the items within 48 hours.
Before May 5, 2025, residents are asked to review the Curbside Bulk Item Collection information at: https://www.timmins.ca/our_services/waste_recycling_services/residential_curbside_bulk_item_collection_program.
Amanda Dyer
Timmins, ON – City of Timmins Public Works is declaring changes to the snow removal schedule for the week of April 14, 2025.
Due to the recent melt over the weekend and rainfall, an assessment has been completed on the remaining roads that were scheduled for snow removal. Snow removal will be cancelled in the following areas after today:
Day Shift – South Porcupine:
South Porcupine: Glenn, MacDougall, Smith.
South Porcupine: Legion (Golden to Quebec).
Becky Cashmore
The City of Timmins has joined the 40th annual Pet Valu Walk for Dog Guides as part of National AccessAbility Week this May. Proceeds support the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides (LFCDG), a national charity that empowers Canadians with disabilities to lead confident, independent lives.
On Sunday, May 25, 2025, Timmins’ residents have an opportunity to participate and help raise essential funds to match Canadians with medical and physical disabilities with a life-changing Dog Guide, at no cost to the recipient. A Dog Guide costs approximately $35,000 to raise, train, and match. The amount is covered through vital events like the Walk for Dog Guides, which is why the City has signed up!
Thanks to national sponsor, Pet Valu, all proceeds from this event will directly fund Dog Guide programs. The Timmins’ Pet Valu Walk for Dog Guides is taking place on May 25, 2025 at Gillies Lake. Registration is now open at: https://www.walkfordogguides.com/fundraiser/TimminsWalkforDogGuides. Residents can also make a direct donation in-person at Service Timmins in City Hall, Pet Valu on Waterloo Rd., or online through the Timmins’ event page.
Timmins’ Pet Valu Walk for Dog Guides is part of the City’s National AccessAbility Week programming, coordinated by the Municipal Accessibility Advisory Committee. The committee works year-round to ensure that municipal services, facilities, and infrastructure are accessible to people of all abilities in our community. Learn more at: https://www.timmins.ca/our_services/accessibility.
Amanda Dyer
Board Timmins Transit for free on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. We’re celebrating Earth Day with free bus rides to help support our planet. Going green can be as simple as choosing public transportation.
There are a number of reasons riding the bus can be environmentally friendly versus using a private vehicle. Buses produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions per passenger than private cars and trucks. Public transportation options can also lower energy consumption and help conserve fuel, reducing the demand for fossil fuels. Fewer vehicles on the road can also lower levels of air pollutants.
As Timmins plans for growth and development, improving and modernizing public transportation is one way we can create walkable neighbourhoods, that are more compact and connected across a sustainable transportation network.
On Tuesday, April 22 ride the bus for Earth Day! It’s free and it’ll give the environment a break. Where will you go?
Amanda Dyer
Board Timmins Transit for free on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. We’re celebrating Earth Day with free bus rides to help support our planet. Going green can be as simple as choosing public transportation.
There are a number of reasons riding the bus can be environmentally friendly versus using a private vehicle. Buses produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions per passenger than private cars and trucks. Public transportation options can also lower energy consumption and help conserve fuel, reducing the demand for fossil fuels. Fewer vehicles on the road can also lower levels of air pollutants.
As Timmins plans for growth and development, improving and modernizing public transportation is one way we can create walkable neighbourhoods, that are more compact and connected across a sustainable transportation network.
On Tuesday, April 22 ride the bus for Earth Day! It’s free and it’ll give the environment a break. Where will you go?
Amanda Dyer
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