COMMUNITY CHIPPING DAYS!
Oct. 22 & 23, 2025

California state law requires 100 feet of defensible space around homes and outbuildings. The defensible space protects both your home and the firefighters who will work to save it during a major wildfire event.

The Twin Lakes FSC & TLPOA encourage property owners to create defensible space around their homes and will provide funds to pay for a FREE curbside chipping day on Wednesday, Oct. 22, and Thursday, Oct. 23. Have piles staged and stacked by Oct. 1. This is a great way for property owners to dispose of deadwood, brush, tree limbs, and small trees accumulated while making your property fire-safe.

We will NOT chip SAGEBRUSH, PINE CONES, PINE NEEDLES, TREE STUMPS, OR CONSTRUCTION LUMBER.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

• CONTACT Pat Cates @ paddycates@me.com by Sept. 20, 2025, if you wish to participate.
  
  WHAT PARTICIPATING HOME OWNERS MUST DO
• Participating property owners pile clean deadwood, brush, tree limbs, small trees less than 6” in diameter along your property roadside.
  
• Chipping will only be done along your properties roadway frontage, which will allow the crew and equipment to work from the roadway.
  
• Stack vegetation to be chipped within 5’ feet of chipper access.
  
• Brush, tree limbs, and trees smaller than 6” inches in diameter must be stacked neatly and evenly with the butt ends facing the road. Do not cross-stack the chipping material.
  
• Piles must not exceed 5’ feet in height.
  
• The piles will be inspected prior to the chipping days to ensure unacceptable materials are not included. UNACCEPTABLE MATERIAL WILL NOT BE CHIPPED AND WILL BE LEFT ON THE ROADSIDE.
  
• The TLFSC & TLPOA membership have hired a chipping crew to come to your home to chip the acceptable material AT NO COST to the member. Nonmembers will be charged $200 in advance.
  
  ACCEPTABLE MATERIAL
  
• Deadwood, brush, tree limbs, and small trees
  
• Material must be free of rocks & dirt. NO tree stumps, sagebrush, pine cones, pine needles, and construction material.