Timberline Disposal provides Silver Plume residential customers with curb side trash & recycling pickup each Tuesday free of charge. They also provide 1 dumpster exclusively for use of residents who live on Silver Street, Jefferson Street, and Willis Street, as these residents do not have the convenience of curbside pickup at their homes on Tuesdays.
Residential curb side trash and recycling are for residential garbage only and are emptied weekly:
Please do not put construction debris, furniture, tires, mattresses, etc., into the cans! If the doors cannot be closed and latched the bears will tear out the trash!
Please do not place items outside the dumpster – the truck picks up the dumpster and empties it into trash truck, the driver has no way to load these large items. This dumpster is located on private property, as a courtesy to the affected residents. Please respect this property and the privilege to dispose of trash here.
Residential trash pickup is Tuesday morning (when there is a Monday holiday it is moved to Wednesday) occasionally due to unforeseen circumstances your trash may not get picked up so please bring it in overnight.
LEAVE YOUR TRASH SECURED UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING!! If it does not get picked up, PLEASE bring it in and secure it DO NOT leave it out overnight!!
If you are authorized to use the dumpster, CLOSE AND SECURE THE SLIDING DOORS!! If the door jams, notify the transfer station or contact the Town Clerk at 303-569-2363.
HELPFUL TIPS:
DO NOT STORE PET FOOD, BIRD SEED, TRASH, or anything that is food for our ursine neighbors behind flimsy doors.
*A bear proof trash can like the one at Town Hall can be ordered for $45.00/quarter. Please contact Timberline directly. 970-368-6446*
Please follow the simple steps that will eliminate the need to pick up trash from our streets on a regular basis. This is YOUR responsibility! Please take it seriously!
The bears are not responsible for the problem of garbage strewn all over our streets and yards. Our citizens are unfortunately making this problem worse than it should be by making garbage available to the bears.
Please help Silver Plume set the example and not be a source of food to attract the bears who live in our area.
Thank you,
Martin Gitlin, Trustee
(On behalf of the Silver Plume Mayor & Board of Trustees)
Elevation: 9116 Population: 203*
*Population figure may include dogs, drop-ins, and ground squirrels.
Silver Plume is a Home Rule Town located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The Town is a former silver mining camp situated along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
The federally designated Georgetown-Silver Plume National Historic District comprises Silver Plume, the neighboring Town of Georgetown, and the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park between the two towns.
The town population was 203 at U.S. Census 2000. The Silver Plume Post Office has the ZIP Code 80476.
Silver Plume is part of the Georgetown-Silver Plume National Historic Landmark District Written by the late John Calhoun – written in 1995 – (some details may have changed):Period photos are available at the “Digital Images” section of the Denver Public Library.Silver Plume is a very small, old, rural mining town dating from the Colorado gold and silver rush of the last four decades of the 19th century.
In 1859, gold was discovered at the confluence of Clear Creek and the Platte River near what is now Denver. Inspired by the 1849 California gold rush and by Horace Greeley’s immortal if misguided promotional admonition to “Go west, young man, go west,” literally thousands of fortune-seekers headed up Clear Creek into the Rocky Mountains, seeking the veins of ore that were the source of the nuggets and dust found in the waters of the Creek.
Silver Plume is a peaceful town comprising the kind of independent citizens who love the serenity and inspiration of living nestled in the heart of the Rocky Mountains.
Actual local Events may be few and far between, but the Town's leaders regularly meet to manage and maintain its civic resources and philosophies.
Town Events are interspersed with civic meetings and can be found by clicking on the link below.