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Utilities Call Center & Cashier’s Office Hours Expanded To Handle Temporary Call Volume
Pinellas County Utilities Customer Service continues to receive a high volume of customer call activity and lengthy customer wait times. Therefore, Pinellas County Utilities Customer Services Call Center has temporarily extended its hours of operation. Through Friday, May 16th, Customer Service representatives will be available to respond to customer calls from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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Proper Disposal of Medicines Urged
Pinellas County Utilities reminds customers that proper disposal of medicines can help alleviate the issue of trace amounts of pharmaceuticals that have been detected in some drinking water systems around the country.
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Hazardous Waste Collection Events for Businesses: Quarterly Events Increase to Monthly in 2008!
Businesses asked Pinellas County Utilities to offer more hazardous waste collection days, so Solid Waste Operations increased the number of days from every quarter to every month. That’s a yearly increase from four to twelve EnviroBusiness hazardous waste collection events.
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Pinellas County Utilities Issues Consumer Alert
Complaints Target Water Treatment Companies
Beware of any company using scare tactics and misrepresentation to sell a product.
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Educational Resources

Your children will enjoy our entertaining Web site Just for Kids with educational games, puzzles, coloring, songs, and contests.

Teachers: Bookmark our Web site Just for Teachers with free activity books, lesson plans, worksheets, DVDs, newsletters, and much more.

Homeowner Associations

Help grow your residents’ knowledge about conservation and recycling. E-mail pcuwebteam@pinellascounty.org to request free copies of Planet Pinellas.
New Issue Now Available!

Free Tours

Have you toured South Cross? Free tours of the water reclamation facility are available to the public. School tours are available for grades 5 and up, that include free transportation to the facility, plus substitute teachers for middle or high school classes. [ Web site ]

Keep Pinellas Beautiful

Learn about volunteer opportunities to keep our county clean.

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Irrigation Water Rebate

Save money & drinking water! By installing an alternate source for irrigation (such as a well), customers may be reimbursed up to $300. [ more info ]

This Week's GREEN TIP

Idling is getting you nowhere! Save fuel and reduce emissions by turning off your engine when you are parked or stopped (except in traffic) for more than a minute. Avoid idling at drive-thrus by walking inside. [ more

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Check back every Friday for a new GREEN TIP!
For more tips, visit Thinking Green.

Cutting Waste at Work

Pinellas County's Business Waste Reduction Program can help your business lower disposal costs and demonstrate a commitment to sustainability. Call (727) 464-7500 for a free waste assessment and customized recommendations. On-site training and follow-up are also available.
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Attention Boaters

It’s illegal (and dangerous) to throw unused marine flares in the trash or our waterways. Recycle your expired flares at 18 local marinas or the Pinellas County hazardous waste facility (HEC3). [ more ]

Recycle Regatta: 2008

Shiver me timbers! The pictures are here! A sincere Thank You to all the students, teachers, and parents who continue to make the Recycle Regatta better every year. Scroll through six pages of photos to check out this year’s action and get some ideas for next year’s Regatta. [ view photos ]

T-shirt Design Winners

Thank you to all who entered our annual t-shirt design contests! Click on these links to view the winning entries!
[ Drinking Water Week
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[ Earth Day (6th-8th grade)

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How Do I Get Rid of It?

—UPDATED FOR 2008!—
Use our A to Z Guide for Recycling & Disposal to find out how to “get rid of” just about anything. Join the thousands of Pinellas County citizens using this comprehensive web guide which now lists over 250 items. [ more info ]

NEW Recycling Directory

NOW AVAILABLE!
Do you have a copy of the new 2008 Pinellas County Recycling Directory? If not, call us to request a free copy, or you can print pages from our Web site. You’ll refer to this handy guide again and again.
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Toilet Rebate Is Back

Does Your Castle STILL Need a New Throne?
Get rebates for up to $100 for each low flow toilet replaced by a new Ultra Low Flow Toilet.
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Mobile Collection Events

Household Electronics & Chemical Mobile Collection
Drop off your unwanted household electronics and chemicals at a Mobile Collection event near you. [ more info ]

Haz-to-Go Trailer

Pinellas County resident groups:

Now you can schedule the "Haz-to-Go" trailer and host your own household electronics and chemical collection event.

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Haz-to-Go wins awards!

Expanded Hours for HEC3

For your convenience, our Household Electronics and Chemical Collection Center (HEC3) is now open every Saturday from 7 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. [ more info ]

School Grants

Twenty-one schools in Pinellas County (public and private) received “Splash Grants” of up to $5,000 last year for water conservation projects. Learn more about school grants on our new web page! [ more ]

Utilities billing address
PO Box 1780
Clearwater Fl 33757-1780

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For questions about services, e-mail PCU
Customer Service at custsrv@pinellascounty.org
or call at (727) 464-4000