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Highway Department
(716) 674-4850
39 South Avenue Office Hours: Monday thru Friday 7:00am - 3:30pm West Seneca is a
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Winter Parking Ban
The parking of vehicles is prohibited on all Town highways and County roads within the Town of West Seneca between the hours of 1:00 AM and 7:00 AM
This parking ban is effective November 15th thru March 15th, inclusive.
Call Before You Dig !!
Think before you dig! What you can't see can hurt you!
There are many utilities in West Seneca with underground services
(telephone, gas, cable, kiantone, etc.).If you hit one of these lines you may be responsible for damages caused by the disruption of services. This could cost you tens of thousands of dollars in repair costs.
Think Smart -- Dig Smart
Please call UFPO before you dig at 1-800-962-7962
Underground Facilities Protective Organization (UFPO) is a not-for-profit organization serving New York State. Located in Syracuse, the mission of UFPO is to comply with governing regulations to protect the public and prevent damage to underground facilities through education and quality communication between excavators and underground facility operators in an efficient, user-friendly, cost-effective manner.
Overview
The Highway Department is responsible for the maintenance of 110 miles of roadways in West Seneca. The department employs 60 full-time employees and 15 seasonal employees.
The Sanitation Department has 25 full-time employees and ten part-timers who pick up garbage and yard waste on a weekly basis.
A modern, efficiently organized compost facility is managed by two highway employees, handling up to 40 tons of yard waste on a Spring day, generating up to 9000 yards of finished compost a year -- compost that is used by both town and West Seneca residents.
Parks
The responsibility of maintaining the 13 Parks, including five major park facilities, in West Seneca lies with the Highway Department. Activities include the maintenance of baseball diamonds, soccer fields, indoor ice rink, and other recreation sites.
Vehicles
The Town of West Seneca Highway and Sanitation Departments have a total of 158 vehicles in their fleet, valued at $ 5,527,364.89 million, ranging from a 1981 dump truck all the way to some 1998 models. Most of the trucks used by the highway department are between 1990 and 1997 models.
Twenty of the Town's dump trucks are equipped with plows for winter activity and the Town has thirteen garbage packers. Five Sanitation Department packers, with 3 man crews, are on the road daily, picking up garbage and rubbish from residential areas on a scheduled basis. Three other packers are out gathering yark wastes.
Other vehicles in the fleet include, front-end loaders, sewer machines, a sewer maintenance truck, tractors, rollers, dozer, backhoe, flushing truck, flat bed trailers, tree stumper, shredder, compost turner, mowers, pickup trucks, vans and automobiles.
The Highway Department employs five skilled mechanics who are responsible for maintaining a preventative maintenance program for all vehicles.
Buildings & Grounds
Overview
The Buildings & grounds Department has 15 full-time employees and 20 seasonal employees.
Maintaining 10 municipal buildings and the care of the parks system fall to the Buildings and Grounds Department.
West Nile Virus
Information
The following information is reprinted from the Erie County Department of Health to provide information for our West Seneca residents on the West Nile virus.
- The West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause inflammation of the brain (encephalitis)
- Fortunately, most people who were infected by the 1999 West Nile virus outbreak in the New York City area had no symptoms or experienced mild illness with fever, headache and body aches before fully recovering.
- In a small number of individuals, the West Nile virus can cause more serious disease. Seniors or very young children are at increased risk of developing more severe symptoms including headache, confusion, weakness, paralysis, and seizures. At its most serious, the infection can result in coma and death. Symptoms usually occur five to 15 days follwoing the bite of an infected mosquito.
- Because the West Nile encephalitis is a viral infection, antibotics are not effective and there is no specific treatment available.
- The West Nile virus is transmitted through the bite of a mosquito that becomes infected with the virus by feeding on an infected bird.
The Best Way to Avoid the West Nile Virus
is to Avoid Mosquito Bites !
What can you do to reduce your risk of mosquito bites?
- Consider minimizing time spent outdoors between dusk and dawn when mosquitos feed
- Wear shoes and socks, long pants, and a long-sleeved shirt when outdoors for long periods of time
- Consider the use of mosquito repellent when it is necessary to be outdoors. If using insect repellent with DEET, use it sparingly and always according to the manufacturers instructions. Use repellents that have no more than 30% DEET. (According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, repellents used on children should contain no more than 10% DEET) There is no need to treat unexposed skin.
Mosquito Control In and Around your House
Mosquitos NEED stagnant or standing water to lay their eggs. To reduce the mosquito population around your home, and properly reduce or eliminate all stagnant water.
- Check your property and remove any water holding containers, especially old tires, cans, buckets, drums, wheelbarrows, and bottles. Drain the water in birdbaths, plant pots, and drip trays twice a week.
- Check your screens to ensure that your home has tight fitting screens in good repair over windows and doors to keep mosquitos from entering apartments and homes.
- Remove standing water from your basement. Place a couple of capfuls of household bleach in your basement sump-pump pit if it has standing water.
- Keep drains, culverts, ponds, and streams on your property clean of weeds and trash so that the water will drain properly.
- Clean your gutters and remove standing water from flat roofs
- Keep your grass cut short and trim your schrubs to eliminate hiding places for adult mosquitoes.
- Clean and chlorinate swimming pools, outdoor saunas and hot tubs. Be sure rainwater does not collect on pool, sauna, or hot tub covers. You shold disinfect cover with bleach to kill larvae and eggs.
- Drill holes in the bottoms of recycling bins and other containers that are kept outdoors.
In addition to reducing potential breeding sites on your property, you can encourage your neighbors, local businesses and municipal agencies to do so as well.
Notice of Mosquito Control with Larvacide
- At the direction of the Erie County Department of Health, a program of larvaciding potential mosquito breeding sites such as storm drains and other standing water may be carried out in West Seneca for the health and safety of our residents.
- The larvacides that may be used are ALTOSID and VECTOLEX. The larvacides prevent mosquito larvae from developing into adult mosquitoes capable of spreading the virus by biting humans and birds. Both can cause mild skin and eye irritation but only with direct contact, and both are otherwise safe.
- ALTOSID contains methoprene, an insect growth regulator (IGR) or hormone that interferes with normal mosquito development. ALTOSID products won't upset the food chain or impact fish and other non-target species, and ALTOSID products will not harm the environment.
- VECTOLEX's active ingredient contains a naturally occuring bacteria (Bacillus sphaericus) that is common in soils in the United States and throughout the world. When used around water these bacteria are rapidly destroyed, and their toxins do not appear to be harmful to fish and most other marine life.
- If you have questions about the larvaciding program, please call the Erie County Health Department's Environmental Health Services Office at 858-7690.
The Town of West Seneca is in the forefront in the fight against the West Nile virus. The Town is working aggessively with Erie County and the State of New York to contain, reduce, and eliminate the West Nile virus.
The Engineering Department and the Highway Department are working hard to eliminate sources of standing water and other potential mosquito breeding grounds.Mosquitos NEED stagnant or standing water to lay their eggs. To reduce the mosquito population around your neighborhodd, stagnant water must be eliminated.
Please click on the following form to report standing water. A copy of this form will be sent to Erie County and to the West Seneca Engineering Department for immediate action.
Click to complete Standing Water Monitoring Report Form
For more information about the West Nile virus, call the Erie County Environmental Health Services at the following District Office:
South District Office - Hamburg
716-649-4225The Erie County Health Department can be contacted evenings and weekends at:
716-858-7690
The Erie County Department of Health General Information Line is:
716-858-6089
For more information,
please visit the following West Nile web sites:http://www.erie.gov/west_nile_virus.phtml
(Erie County Web Pages)
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/wnv/wnvfaq9.html
(New York City Department of Health)
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/westnile/index.htm
(New York State Department of Health)
(West Nile Virus Informational Website)
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