Cleansing and maintenance
How we maintain our footpaths, laneways, roads and kerb channels. Request help with street furniture, drains, dead animals and other cleaning issues.
Help keep our streets and waterways clean this autumn by placing fallen leaves in your FOGO bin. Please avoid sweeping leaves onto the road.
Please call us immediately at 9205 5555 if you see something that poses a danger to the public or damage to property.
On a regular basis we clean and maintain:
- Council-managed roads
- streets
- footpaths
- laneways
- street bins
- local parks, reserves and other public spaces.
Kerb-to-kerb maintenance of freeways and arterial roads is the responsibility of Department of Transport and Planning.
Our services
Request maintenance for parks or sports ground
Graffiti removal
Disposing of syringes
Public toilets
Weed control in Yarra
How we manage public trees
Common requests
Remove dumped rubbish and litter in streets, laneways or public spaces
Report overflowing bins
Remove commercial waste or hard rubbish in streets, laneways or public spaces
Report damaged street furniture
Report a footpath obstruction
Report damaged or dirty street signs
Remove a dead animal
Fixing a blocked or flooding stormwater drain
Report another issue with a stormwater drain
Understanding stormwater drains and legal points of discharge
Street cleaning service
To request cleaning service of Council assets, choose from the options below:
- Dumped rubbish and litter removal in streets, laneways or public spaces (for example: excessive litter or dumped waste)
- Syringe pick up
- Weed treatment in streets, gutters or laneways
- Blocked or flooding stormwater drain
- Stormwater drain – smell from pit or other
- Dead animal removal
- Overflowing bins
- Commercial waste or hard rubbish in streets, laneways or public spaces
Report a maintenance issue
To request maintenance of Council assets, choose from the options below:
- Damaged street furniture (objects placed or fixed in the street for public use, for example a broken bench or rubbish bin)
- Damaged or dirty street signs
- Park maintenance (for example: overflowing bins, toilets)
Request maintenance on other assets:
- Freeways, arterial roads and bridges: VicRoads – 13 11 70
- Train stations, tram and bus stops: Public Transport Victoria – 1800 800 007
- Electrical substations: Citipower and Powercor – 1300 301 101
- Pay phones: Telstra – 13 22 00
- Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) parks and structures – DFFH Housing Centre – 13 11 72
Reporting pollution and littering
Pollution and littering is managed by the Environment Protection Authority.
Please note the best contact points for pollution issues below.
Water pollution occurring from an industry or business
For litter being thrown from a vehicle.
Reporting abandoned shopping trolleys
To report a shopping trolley in Yarra please contact the relevant retailer.
Contact CitiPower or call 13 12 80 for the following suburbs:
- Abbotsford
- Carlton North
- Clifton Hill
- Collingwood
- Cremorne
- Fitzroy
- Fitzroy North
- Princes Hill
- Richmond
You can report faults via CitiPower 's street lighting fault reporting tool.
Contact Jemena or call 13 16 26 for the following suburbs:
- Alphington
- Fairfield
You can report faults via Jemena's street lighting fault reporting tool.