2011-09-13-Wildfire
Smoke from Minnesota wildfires caused quite a stir in Northern Cook and Lake Counties this afternoon. According to a Septemeber 13th Associated Press release, “The fire started August 18 with a lighting strike 20 miles from Ely, but only began spreading quickly this week in windy, dry conditions. The fire raced 16 miles east in a single […]
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2011-Summer
New Service Truck: Once again this year we used the extraordinary talents of our crew to assemble a utility box and rails for use on our service truck. Our crew painted and fastened the utility box to the vehicle as well as fabricated the utility rails which mount directly in the box. This service vehicle […]
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2011-Spring
Winter 2010-2011: This year started out just like the two previous years, with a cold and snowy December. We were busy keeping the roads clear for all of your Christmas celebrations. We were in the midst of our second year of a reduced salt diet to clear the roads of snow and ice. While using […]
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2011-Weather-July
The first day of July brought these omnious clouds to the Chicagoland area. However, over the next few weeks we received little to no rain and endured hot and humid days as seen in this graphic. Since June 22 we have only received 0.06″ of rain which caused moisture stress in the first layers of soil which turned […]
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2011-07-23-Weather-Deluge
Part of the “Ring of Fire” that engulfed much of the country, storms arrived here and packed a one-two punch. After many weeks of high heat, humidity and drought like conditions with only trace amounts of rainfall we received a barrage of precipitation that rivaled hurricane conditions. The last bit of rainfall we had was […]
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2011-07-11-Weather-Derecho
Monday morning’s storm event was over before it even started. At around 7:45 am a squall line with damaging winds of up to 60 mph. arrived into our area. This storm system started in the western states on Sunday afternoon and by Monday night it finally blew of the eastern coast totalling a 1.400 mile […]
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2011-Weather-June
Coming off the heels of wet months, June tallys 14 measureable rainfall events and will be the 5th wettest June in 84 years. The total amount of precipation measured at O’Hare was 3.39″ however Midway totalled 7.29″. Our monitoring rain gauge calculated 3.27″. Early in the month we had periods of hot and of course […]
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2011-Weather-May
May 2011 has been one for the record books according to ChicagoWeatherCenter.com and Meteorologist Richard Koeneman reports that we received approximately 7.19″ of rain for the month. Click here for the monthly total precipitation. Over the Memorial Day weekend, mainly on Sunday at noon from approximately 10:00 am to 1:30 a.m., we received 1.7 inches of rain. The following pdf […]
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2011-Weather-April
This month has truly been a record breaker. In rainfall alone it ranks as the 17th wettest month. According to Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling of WGN news, “Rain-weary Chicagoans won’t find this hard to believe. April 2011 has produced 16 days of measurable rain—55 percent more than normal and the greatest number of measurably rainy […]
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2012 Compost Availability
Compost is simply a decayed organic matter such as fallen leaves, dead plants and grass clippings. It is rich in nutrients that aid in plant growth and make a great soil additive.
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