To help prevent street flooding, the city is asking Seattle residents' help with keeping our street drains open and operative. You do this by removing leaves from neighborhood drains with a rake or broom - if it can be done safely. Then collect fallen leaves in your yard, and either compost them or properly dispose of them in yard waste containers.
Residents are invited to sign up to become Adopt-A-Drain volunteers to monitor and keep drains in their community free of debris. Seattle Public Utilities will support volunteers with bags, gloves, rakes and free disposal - but quantities are limited. To adopt a drain or request a pickup of collected leaves, call 684-7647.
If there is a drain blockage below the street surface that is not remedied by removing the leaves, call Seattle Public Utilities' Drainage and Wastewater Maintenance, 386-1800.[[In-content Ad]]
