Allen.
Your water report.

The North Texas Municipal Water District was created as a special district in 1951, with ten original member cities, after local leaders grew worried about shrinking groundwater supplies. Its first treatment plant began operating in 1956, drawing on Lavon Lake, which had begun impounding water in 1953. Allen joined in 1998 as the district's twelfth member city. The city's water still comes from the district, with Lavon Lake as the main source and additional supplies available from Lake Texoma on the Red River and from Lake Cooper, which Congress renamed Jim Chapman Lake that same year.

Sources: Handbook of Texas: Allen, TX · Texas Municipal League directory: City of Allen (Year Incorporated 1953) · City of Allen: Safe Water · North Texas Municipal Water District: History · Texas Water Development Board: Lake Lavon

Allen contracts with Community Waste Disposal (CWD) for residential trash and recycling. Trash is picked up weekly and recycling every other week on your assigned day; look it up with the city's Find My Collection Day tool or the MyAllen app.

• Accepted: plastics #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 and #7, glass bottles and jars, aluminum and steel cans, empty aerosols, paper, cardboard, cartons.
• Not accepted: plastic bags, aluminum foil or foil containers, #6 foam, ceramics, drinking glasses, pizza boxes, food-soiled paper, alkaline batteries, textiles, wire hangers.
• Drop-off: cardboard is accepted at the Texas Pure Products facility, 9901 Custer Road, Plano, per the city's disposal page.
• Also: schedule a household hazardous waste pickup in the MyAllen app or by calling Community Services at 214.509.4551.

Sources: City of Allen: Trash and Recycling · City of Allen: Do-It-Yourself Disposal · City of Allen: Household Chemical Collection