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Water
and Electricity:
La Porte City
Utilities
is a municipally owned utility. Water storage capacity 400,000 gallons, 2 wells;
average consumption 240,000 gpd.
Sanitation:
Sewage treatment facility with a design capacity of 554,000 gpd. The average
load is 250,000 gpd. Ninety-eight percent of the community is served by city
sewer.
Trash:
Curbside collection is provided once per week. Click
here for
collection route.
Recycling:
Curbside pickup is provided twice per month. A recycling drop-off bin is
also available at 4th & Elm Streets, near the railroad tracks.
Click here
for recycling pickup schedule.
Yard
Waste:
The City landfill on 8th
Street is open 7 days a week.
Natural Gas:
Aquila serves the community.
Telephone:
La Porte City Telephone Co. is a locally owned phone company providing
locally based repair service and equal access to long distance markets.
There are 39 sheath miles of fiber optic cable in the system providing a
connection to the 27 toll carriers and the interactive video connection from
the Iowa Communications Network at the high school.
Cable
Television:
Mediacom Cablevision provides cable service. In addition to four local
broadcast networks, the local cable package includes 25 basic channels, 3
premium channels, along with a community based local access channel.
Police:
The
La
Porte City Police Department provides
24-hour protection with four full-time officers.
Emergency Service:
The La Porte City Fire
Department is a volunteer organization that provides both fire and ambulance protection.
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