Chesapeake's Environment

• Facts About Litter, Trash & Recycling (flyer) -
  

Disposal of Trash & Waste for Residents

• Bulk Trash
• Dead Animal Removal
• Citizen Waste Collection and Recycling Survey

Recycling for Residents

• Recycling in Chesapeake
  Including information on what can be recycled,
  where it can be recycled, and what your regular
  household recycling schedule is.
  
• Recycling Grass
• Hazardous Waste

Volunteer Programs

• Adopt-A-Garden/Adopt-A-Highway with Public Works
  Invites groups and organizations to select a specific site to adopt and promise to keep it free from litter at least four times per year for a two-year period.  Orange vests and trash bags are provided. 
  
  Road signs identifying the adopting group are erected.  Program sponsors include the CEIC, Chesapeake Public Works Department, and the Virginia Department of Transportation.

  • Adopt a Garden or Highway
    
    

• Adopt-A-Park, Garden, or Other Spot with Parks & Recreation
  Civic organizations and businesses are encouraged to take an active role in helping to beautify the city by creating and maintaining a garden on selected medians, parks, municipal grounds, or other public locations.  Some participants take a hands-on approach by designing, planting, and maintaining the gardens for a two-year period.  Others agree to pay for a professional landscaping company to do the work. 
  
  A sign is erected to identify the participating group.  Sponsors include the Public Works Department, Parks and Recreation Department, and the CEIC.

• Adopt a Park, Garden, or Other Spot
  

• You Can Make a Difference in Just One Hour - brochure

Health Department

Environmental


• Food Health & Restaurant Inspections

Mosquito Control

• Controlling Mosquito Populations
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Tips for Residents

Department of Development & Permits

• Inspections
• Landscape Information
• Wetlands

Parks & Recreation Department

Chesapeake Environmental Improvement Council (CEIC)



• CEIC
  Chesapeake Environmental Improvement Council

• Business Beautification

• Notable Yards

Planning Department

Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act (CBPA)


• General CBPA Information for the City of Chesapeake
  
• Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act
  
• Wetlands/CBPA Meeting - Current Agenda
  
• Wetlands/CBPA Meeting - Previous Agendas

Public Works Department

Stormwater Division

• Best Management Practice (BMP) Inspection Program
• Erosion & Sediment (E&S) Control Inspections -
• Maintenance of ditches, storm drains, & other structures

Permits

• Commercial Land Disturbing Permits
  
• Residential Land Disturbing Permits

Waste Management Division

• Waste Disposal (brochure) -
  
• Rules
  
• Recycling

Cheapeake Participates in Postive Environmental Initiatives

1. Recycling - Various departments are recycling materials, data is available
   
   
2. Central Fleet Environmental Management System – Central Fleet has received the Environmental Enterprise (E2) designation from the Virginia Dept of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) Virginia Environmental Excellence Program.  The City is shown on the VDEQ website.
   
   
3. Substituting hazardous material with non-hazardous.  Efforts have been made by various departments and divisions, namely Public Works, Central Fleet, and Mosquito Control.
   
   
4. Environmental Policy Statement – signed by Mayor Ward in 2002 – not currently on the web site
   
   
5. Energy Reduction measures (as applicable)
   
   
6. Paper use reduction measures (use of scanner/copiers, two-sided printing, email, etc.)
   
   
7. Chesapeake Arboretum
   
   
8. Computer Recycling – City participates in Dell return program.
   
   
9. Money Point Task Force – City is an active participant
   
   
10. Rt 17/Dismal Swamp Canal Trail, Property Owners Meeting
    
    
11. Legislative Initiatives
    
    
12. Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant