Storm Recovery Update

The storm that hit Addison on Sunday left a wake of massive tree damage around Town. The neighborhoods on the east side of the Tollway were hit the hardest, along with Town Hall, the Finance building, Winnwood Park, and White Rock Creek Trail. We also saw significant destruction in Quorum and Bosque Park and along Midway Road, Beltway Road right-of-way and the North Dallas Tollway Frontage Road. We have isolated damage to trees at Celestial Park, Town Park, North Addison Park, Redding Trail, Vitruvian Park, Proton Drive right-of-way, Dome Park, and Addison Circle Park, along with damage to Town-maintained landscape areas on the east and west sides of town.  Sadly, we have already identified nearly 200 trees that will need to be cut down and there is still more work to do.

The Town’s damage recovery is focused on opening up roads and parking lots, ensuring city services are available, and removing Town trees that have made residential properties inaccessible.  If you have property damage from one of Addison’s trees that cannot be seen from the street, please contact us at 972-450-2851.

We are doing our best to triage all requests based on safety and damage to homes. The Town has contracted with several other companies to aid us in this effort, but there is still a significant amount of work to be done. We anticipate this to be a lengthy recovery process. Our crews have begun hauling off debris in the neighborhoods and the Town has asked CWD to continue debris clean up this weekend. The CWD crew will be collecting limbs in a regular trash truck so will be limited on what they can collect to brush under 50 pounds and less than six inches in diameter. Beginning again next week, Addison crews will be making additional passes throughout the neighborhoods to collect larger items that CWD can't pick up. If you notice a crew does not collect all your brush in one visit, please rest assured that additional teams will continue to patrol neighborhoods until all the debris has been disposed of. We expect this will take some time to complete.

We ask that residents do not pile wood from your property on Addison parks and trails because it limits our team's ability to access other damaged areas. Also, if you are hiring an outside tree trimming company to assist you with tree removal on your property, please ask them to haul off the limbs.
While our crews are addressing the storm damage, other day-to-day chores like plantings have been put on hold. Our entire team and our contractors are working as quickly as possible to respond to all the requests we have received. We appreciate your patience as we work to deal with the most serious issues first.