Edgemont’s ELM Program Ready for 2026
We are on the cusp of another spring and summer in Edgemont and your ELM Program is ready to adorn our community once again with flowers and manicured green spaces. Edgemont is filled with so many natural gems! Little gazebos and quiet parks within grand forested valleys, and open vast escarpments exposed to the mountains make for adventures and relaxation all within our home community!
Our flowers are getting ready for their grand entrance at the end of May or beginning of June, depending on the risk of frost.
Street sweeping will be on our radar soon. The schedule will be posted on the City of Calgary website, and signage will be placed a few days prior to sweeping. Please ensure your vehicles are not on the street on the day your street is scheduled for cleaning. It is not possible for sweepers to return as they operate on a tight schedule. Not only is it a common courtesy for your neighbours, but residual gravel is a hazard for children and adults on bikes, the material is washed downstream from the missed areas and spreads the hazard to a larger area, and the capacity for street storm drains to handle summer downpours is reduced as the material accumulates in these drains and blocks them.
In coordination with the street cleaning, the ELM Program ensures our medians are also looking their best with the removal of accumulated gravel from winter traction efforts.
It is expected that irrigation will be a challenge again this year with work and risks associated with Bearspaw South Feeder Main. It is expected and planned that this will only affect irrigation in green spaces and not water trucked in for our flowers. If required, we have secured an alternate water source outside of the Calgary water system to ensure our flowers will be given the best chance to compete with whatever Mother Nature has in store for us this year.
Some initiatives on the horizon for Edgemont include levelling of planters that have settled over time and suffered the effects of natural frost heaving. Our eligible green spaces will receive a fresh dose of fertilizer in late spring. Also new for this year will be the removal of weeds that poke up through concrete medians which will give the community a cleaner appearance.
We continue to work successfully with the City of Calgary and our ELM partners throughout the city to improve implementation strategies that align with the requirements of a Special Tax Levy. Such topics include the five-year Re-affirmation vote process, initiatives that can be included in an Enhanced Landscape Maintenance Program, and the process for communities starting their own new ELM program, to name a few. It is abundantly clear that this program is very desirable, and it is important that communities are given an equitable opportunity to start and retain their programs. This is exciting work and I look forward to sharing more details as they are formalized.
If you see anything that needs tending to, please send me a note to [email protected].
We hope you will continue to enjoy the changing season and longer days ahead as we look forward to another spring in beautiful Edgemont!
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