Due to the bad weather and dangerous road conditions, Alva City Hall will not open until 10:00am on 1/10/25. Essential personnel will continue to try to keep the major City roads as clear as possible and will continue spreading sand/salt to help the road conditions. We appreciate your understanding during this significant weather event.
Great news! Our power is back on at the well fields. We should start seeing our water pressure rise by around 3:00pm. Please continue to conserve water until around that time. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this difficult time. Please keep our workers who are out in this weather in your thoughts!
We are experiencing a significant power outage at our water well field due to the inclement weather conditions. We have been able to keep a few wells running, but it isn't enough to keep our water towers full. We would ask that everyone tries to conserve as much water as you can until power is restored. Thank you for your assistance with this!
Just another friendly reminder, trash service normally scheduled for Wednesday, 1 January 2025 will be picked up on Thursday, 2 January 2025. The remainder of the week's trash service will all be picked up a day later than the regularly scheduled pick up day. Just like last week, Friday's normal trash service will be picked up on Saturday. Have a Happy New Year!
A friendly reminder that normally scheduled trash service for Wednesday, 25 December will picked up on Thursday, 26 December 2024. All other regularly scheduled trash pick up for the rest of the week will slide one day. Friday, 27 December trash service will be picked up on Saturday, 28 December 2024. Have a great Holiday Season!
Just a friendly reminder -- there is a lot to do today and this evening on the downtown square as a part of the Bring Christmas Home event! Be sure to stop by and have a good old fashioned hometown Christmas! For a full list of events, please check the Alva Chamber of Commerce website! The bed races begin at 4:15pm where the City of Alva fully expects to win this year with our "Dream Team" of pushers and expert navigator aboard the Alva Rocket! It promises to be a great time! We will see you all there!
Just a reminder - the new sanitation service will not begin until Monday, 2 December 2024. Any garbage put in the new blue poly carts will not be picked up by the City of Alva.
A point of clarification on placement of your new poly carts on your trash pick up day. The poly carts don't actually have to be out in the street. If you will place it at the edge or your yard near the curb, that will be fine with the new service provider. This also is the same for any residents who live on Oklahoma Blvd. Please call City Hall if there are any questions at 580-327-1340.
Please use the below link to access the Waste Connections Fact Sheet that is posted on our News Feed on the City of Alva website. Hopefully this will answer any questions you may have.
https://www.alvaok.org/article/1887601
If you have a legitimate reason that you will not be able physically to take your trash poly carts to the curb on your trash day, please call City Hall to make arrangements to have your trash picked up by hand. Also if you feel you don't need two poly carts, please call City Hall as well.
Please call Heather at 580-327-1340.
Waste Connections is beginning to deliver their provided poly carts to customers throughout The City of Alva. Continue using City of Alva provided poly carts or using alley access waste receptacles as usual. Waste Connections will begin providing trash service on December 2nd, 2024. Until then continue with usual City of Alva provided trash service.
For all residents near the intersection of 7th St and Locust St, you may experience low to no water pressure. The water department is replacing a fire hydrant at that intersection. We anticipate this won't take more than 2 hours, but that is subject to change. We appreciate your patience while we make these necessary repairs.
The City water dept is assisting the contractor installing a new line south of town by the airport. We are turning off valves trying to find the right valve to kill the line they are trying to replace. We believe we will find the right valve and reroute the rest of the water shortly. Thanks for your patience.
Locust St Project Update: Due to some unforeseen delays with our contractor, we've had to adjust our plans. As of about 10 minutes ago, the contractor will be on Locust St tomorrow morning to drop off their concrete forms. The crew will return Saturday to form up all of the necessary curb and guttering. They will return Monday to pour all of the concrete. The City of Alva Street Department will plan to begin laying asphalt Tuesday once the heat of the day will allow us to begin hauling material. We anticipate that it will take 2 days to lay the asphalt.
City of Alva City Hall phones and internet are currently experiencing a service interruption. We appreciate your patience as we wait for AT&T to fix the issue. City Hall will remain open for walk-in business.
Good news! After working through the night again, the leak on College Blvd has been fixed and the hole is being filled back in. We had to open a lot of fire hydrants to release pressure off of the line. Our Water Department is slowing closing all of the hydrants which will bring pressure back up. There may be a little air in the lines as you turn your water on. We hope to be back up to full pressure throughout the entire City within a couple of hours. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
An update on the current water line break situation on College Ave. We have all of necessary parts we need to make the repairs, we are just waiting on the crew to arrive to make the repairs. The crew should be here around midnight and will work throughout the night to get full water pressure restored to everyone by first thing in the morning. There is no guarantee, but that is the goal. Please continue to be patient as we work through this. More updates will follow as we learn more.
Please visit the City of Alva Website for the latest update on progress being made on Locust St improvements. The website is alvaok.org.
The Tree Limb pile collection location at the Transfer Site will be closed for the next two days as we are conducting a burn on the pile that has accumulated. We will send out another notification when we open up the limb pile collection location. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we try to keep this under control.
Great news! The leak at the intersection of College and the Blvd is fixed and the water is back on. The Water Dept worked tirelessly throughout the night and today. The traffic flow will remain restricted until we can get it filled in and concrete poured. The street lights will be inoperable for the near future as we have to get a company out here to evaluate the damage done to the control lines.