FAQs

Yard Waste

Trees, limbs or branches should be placed curbside (not in the roadway) by 6AM Mondays.  The Town has contracted with Downes Lawn Service for yard waste collection that will take place on a 9-month collection season from March to December each year. Please note: Yard waste will not be picked up between December and March each year.

Branches may not be longer than 3 feet and logs and bundles of branches may not weigh more than 50 pounds.

Leaves and grass clippings should be placed in boxes, cans, baskets or bags.

Bulk Waste

Bulk waste, appliances, and tires is NO LONGER collected by the Town after February 1, 2016. These items may be taken to the Queen Anne’s transfer site located at 401 Harper Road, Centreville, MD 21617 using the applicable number of tickets from a coupon book required for disposal.

Construction debris from building renovation or repair shall be removed by the contractor, builder, or property owner. The Town will not collect construction debris.

The Town will NO LONGER rent town trucks items may e taken to the Queen Anne’s transfer site located at 401 Harper Road, Centreville, MD 21617 using the applicable number of tickets from a coupon book required for disposal.

*  Does the Town have a curbside recycling program?

The Town of Centreville has contracted with Chesapeake Waste Industries, LLC for the weekly collection of recycling.

The Town has purchased 32-gallon recycle carts that will remain the property of the Town of Centreville and are only to be used for recycling. Additional containers may be used but are required to have a secure lid.  If you wish to purchase an additional recycle cart, contact Town Hall at 410-758-1180 or by email at townhall@townofcentreville.org.

Please note: items placed in the old green totes will no longer be collected.

• Collection will be on Wednesdays.
• Customers may place as many recycle containers at the curb as necessary.
• All containers must have a SECURED LID.
• Additional containers used for recycling must have the word “RECYCLE” printed on them, or a large “X” on the container and a secured lid.
• Queen Anne’s County also provides recycling dumpsters on Banjo Lane at the Health Department parking lot.
• Every cart will have a unique serial number corresponding to the address for pick-up. You are responsible for this cart. If it breaks or is damaged, please contact Town Hall, as there is a warranty.

Items to recycle:

• Glass jars and bottles with lids removed.
• Plastic jugs and bottles with caps removed.
• Aluminum and steel cans, not crushed or flattened.
• Corrugated card board and paper board boxes, flattened.
• Office papers, newspapers, phone books, paperback books, magazines, catalogs, cards, mail.

Items NOT collected: ceramics, window glass, mirrors, light bulbs (recycle fluorescent and CFL bulbs where you purchased them), plastic bags (recycled at your grocery store) and styrofoam.

Additional recycling information can be found at http://www.midshorerecycling.org/

The Town of Centreville has contracted with Chesapeake Waste Industries, LLC for the weekly collection of Recycle and Household trash.

Please remember the following for household garbage:

• No more than 6 cans/carts per household will be picked up.
• All cans/carts must be placed at the curb no later than 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, but no earlier than 6:00 p.m. Tuesday evening.
• All must be in bags, inside of cans or carts and have a SECURED LID. Items not inside of cans or carts will not be collected.

Please contact Chesapeake Waste Industries if you experience any problems with service.  They may be reached by calling 410-742-0099 or you may email cheapeasewaste@verizon.net.

Yes. Nonprofit fraternal, civic, war veterans’, religious, or charitable organizations, and fire companies that do not serve food to the public more often than four (4) days per week can continue to provide plastic carry-out bags to their patrons.

Other exceptions include package bulk items, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, candy, or small hardware items; plastic bags containing or used to wrap frozen foods, meat, fish, or cheese whether prepackaged or not; plastic bags used to contain or wrap flowers, potted plants, or other damp items; plastic bags used for unwrapped prepared foods or bakery goods; plastic newspaper delivery bags, plastic dry-cleaning bags; or plastic bags containing ice.

Pharmacies and opticians will not charge a paper bag fee for prescription items.

Yes. However, for food sanitation and handling purposes restaurants may not allow customers to use their own reusable carry-out bags. Instead, restaurants will provide paper bags, but will not charge the 10¢ per paper bag fee.

The way it will work is as of January 1, 2024, retail establishments can no longer provide single-use plastic bags to shoppers. Businesses may offer shoppers paper bags for a fee of at least 10¢ per bag for each paper carry-out bag or reusable carry-out bags that it provides to customers. This bag fee will be kept by the retailer. Shoppers can bring their own reusable bags for purchases to avoid the 10¢ per bag fee and save businesses the cost of the paper bags.

If you need a vehicle towed from your private property, contact a local tow service. The police department will not tow vehicles from private property. If your vehicle was towed from private property, contact that property owner to see which tow company they used to tow your vehicle.

FOR ANY EMERGENCY, PLEASE CALL 9-1-1. Officers are on duty 24 hours every day and can be reached by calling the dispatch center. The Dispatch non-emergency number is 410-758-0080. The police department administrative office telephones are forwarded to dispatch after regular business hours and on holidays.

You can call the Queen Anne’s County Drug Task Force at 410-758-TIPS (410-758-8477)

All Centreville parking citations must be payed at the Centreville Town Hall, between 9am and 5pm, Monday through Friday.  You can also pay your citation on line through this link: PAY PARKING TICKET

If you received a traffic citation for an offense and you believe you are innocent, you may go to court to contest your guilt. Once a citation is issued, it must be either paid or otherwise handled through the court system.

Yes. The website indexes web pages as well as PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, and text documents.

Yes.  You can exclude words by using the minus sign (-).  In order to find the results of all pages that have alarm in the result but not permit, you would search for alarm -permit.

• The optimal location is the center of the traffic circle located at Symphony Way and Orchestra Place
• The secondary location is at the pump station located at the far end of Symphony Way, off the walking trail. This location is not optimal.  The location at the pump station is not optimal because it will not pick up all Symphony Village resident meters and is only considered as secondary location because of the possibility to add additional subscribers to the tower.

Based on the study the optimal location identified is in the traffic circle. The secondary location is not optimal as it does not provide transmission to every home in the community.

The actual project lifespan has not been formalized since we are in the beginning stages of the discovery and scoping phase.  Upon final location determination, a formal project plan will be provided to outline the projects estimated start and completion dates.  The flag pole itself has a 20- year warranty.

Automatic Meter Read (AMR) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meters both have a 450MHz to 2.4GHz frequency range. (Cordless phones, baby monitors, remote car keys all fall into this range of frequency) https://www.neptunetg.com/globalassets/resources/white-papers/18-002281-wp-rf-health-effects-07.18.pdf

The Town intends to use the same power supply currently used to light the street lamp in the traffic circle. We anticipate no interruption of services during installation.

• Traffic disruptions will arise however; they will be minimum.
• The project team will provide specifics on any detours, closures, delays, etc., once the project has been finalized and prior to work beginning.

• The flag pole can have no other satellites, antennas, or other equipment adorned as it is not designed for this purpose and would not support additional equipment items.
• The three-legged tower can support additional service provider equipment and the Town will enforce its right to lease to other utility companies as it sees fit.

The modernization effort has been approved by Council – FY22.

The shrubbery was a suggestion by the Town to help enhance the look of the flag pole in the circle.  The Town will work with SV to determine who best to tend to the shrubbery planted in the circle.

Northbrook does have a water tower and it has an antenna at the top to read the communities meters.

Neptune conducted the propagation study and can provide credentials as needed.

The purpose of the propagation study is to locate the most optimal locations within the community that will allow a signal reading to all residents, the sites were recommended based on the signal studies conducted.