Bath City Council announces one-day delay for curbside trash, recycling

Bath City Council members at their March 3, 2026 regular meeting informed residents that severe weather earlier in the week had forced a one-day delay in curbside trash and recycling collections for that week. The notice, delivered during the council’s routine agenda, specifically advised Bath households participating in city curbside programs that scheduled pickups would be postponed by one day.

Council staff framed the change as a municipal adjustment to routine services caused by the storm conditions that affected Bath and parts of Sagadahoc County earlier in the week of March 3. The public notice at the March 3 meeting identified curbside trash and curbside recycling as the services affected; the city did not list additional municipal departments in the notice distributed at the meeting.

The one-day delay applied to collections scheduled during the week that included March 3, 2026. Residents who normally set tubs and carts at the curb on their regular collection day were told through the council notice that crews would operate one calendar day later for that week’s route schedules. The council’s announcement at the March 3 meeting served as the city’s official communication to Bath households about the altered timeline.

Bath’s public works crews were cited by the council as the municipal teams adapting operations to post-storm conditions, with the March 3 meeting used to relay those operational changes to the public. The council’s regular meeting record shows the adjustment was a direct response to severe weather earlier in the week, and the notice was positioned as a single-week modification rather than a permanent change to the curbside program.

City officials communicated the delay to residents at the March 3, 2026 meeting so households could plan for the temporary schedule shift during that week. The council’s announcement rounded out the city’s emergency response messaging to Bath neighborhoods following the storm that prompted the service change.