Real-time flooding updates just got easier thanks to Norfolk’s partnership with RISE, climate tech FloodMapp and Waze! FloodMapp is testing the integration of their flood forecast technology with Waze’s navigation app here in Norfolk.
What’s this mean for Waze users? Drivers receive pop-up icons and audio alerts to warn them of flooded streets along their route – to help avoid property and life-threatening hazards. Drivers can also confirm flooding in the app with a “thumbs up” to help validate FloodMapp’s technology and improve the accuracy of future Waze alerts.
City staff invite you and your neighbors to join them in small group discussions about your priority’s for the city’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding.
They are hosting two community engagement and input meetings in January:
Thursday, January 13 (6:30 p.m.) Berkley Recreation Center Gym, 121 Liberty Street
Thursday, January 20 (6:30 p.m.) Norfolk Fitness and Wellness Center, 7300 Newport Avenue
You can also provide comments on the use of these funds through the following:
Place natural trees, with decorations removed, at the curb on your trash collection day. You can also drop off natural trees to Waste Management, 1176 Pineridge Road, December 28 through January 28.
Street sweeping delays are expected through late January/early February. Due to national supply chain shortages for parts, the Stormwater Street Sweeping Program is experiencing delays in equipment repairs.
Street sweepers are not designed to pick up large volumes of leaves. Only streets with a curb and gutter are swept. Leaves should never be raked or blown into the street or curb line. Per City Code 41.1-4, proactively keep leaves and other debris out the curb line in front of your home.
Need to get rid of leaves? You have a few options!
Leave the leaves – rake them into your flower beds (free mulch – feeds and insulates your flower beds, and provides a winter shelter for birds, frogs, butterflies and beneficial insects)
Mulch mow – mow the leaves (chop them into smaller pieces), and leave on your lawn (free fertilizer)
Compost (free soil)
Bag for trash day – up to twenty (20) clear bags of leaves can be set out on your regular collection day for pick up by Waste Management
For parking enforced areas, parking enforcement will continue and posted no parking zones will be ticketed as usual. Please adhere to all No Parking signs.
For non-enforced parking areas, if a neighborhood route is unable to be completed, they will attempt to make it up the following week. If not, the missed portion will be prioritized the next month.
We will not hold a Wards Corner Civic League meeting this December.
Instead, we’re asking all of you as our neighbors to take a walk (or drive) on the night of Monday the 20th (or thereabouts) to see the holiday lights decorations around our neighborhood and submit your favorite choices to us. Then email us your votes to info@wardscorner.com any time before December 25th.
We will announce the winners shortly after we tally the votes so that you can go see their display if you hadn’t already.
Go beyond finding a new job – find a career that makes a difference with the City of Norfolk. From accounting to 911 dispatch, equipment operator to public safety, clinician to lifeguard, Team Norfolk needs YOU!
The city is looking to hire and is offering a two-day event to help residents complete the process. Interested applicants can meet with members of our Compensation & Staffing Team, learn more about open positions and receive help with the online application process.
Please share with neighbors, friends and family who may be interested in a career that makes a difference!
The City of Norfolk, in partnership with the Friends of Norfolk’s Environment (FONE), Bay Star Homes and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, is hosting FREE tree adoption events for Norfolk residents. Help us expand Norfolk’s tree canopy!
Wards Corner Civic League 