Street – Sanitation

Road Maintenance/Pothole Reporting

The list provide below are streets maintained by the Town Of Canton:

If you need to report maintenance or a pothole and your road name was not listed on the town’s link, please contact the NC DOT at the link below:

Street Cleaning and Scraping

In an effort to keep your streets safe and clean, the Street Department asks citizens not to park long term on the streets in order for the street flusher to wash the streets and for streets to be scraped by snow plows during bad weather. Spring is time for street paving and several streets are scheduled to be paved each year.

Street Pickup

If you need to have any brush, leaves, debris, or any of the items listed below picked up by the Street Department please fill out an online work order or call it in to Town Hall at 828-648-2363 during regular business hours Monday – Friday, 7:30am – 4:00pm.

The Town will provide free pick up of the following items:

• Household junk, appliances, furniture and electronics but is unable to accept construction debris of any kind. Furniture, appliances, and electronics must be placed at the curb.
• Carpet can be picked up, but a charge will be made based on the weight of the material.
• Paint cans can be picked up if they are dried out, if they are not dried out you can put cat litter in them and then they can be picked up.
• Grass, brush and limbs.

**IMPORTANT**: The Town of Canton will NOT pickup nor remove brush, limbs, or similar forms of debris which result from contracted work being performed. It is the responsibility of the property owner or tenant to have such brush, limbs, or similar forms of debris removed at their own expense.

Special Fall Leaf Pickup

Beginning in late October through late December a vacuum truck will come by once a week to suck up any leaves that you rake or blow to the curb without being bagged.
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** IMPORTANT ** ALL other times outside the special pickup period leaves MUST be bagged and a work order must be submitted.

Leaf Pickup Schedule

This schedule is subject to change depending on the weather, the amount of leaves, and/or unforeseen mechanical issues with equipment.