Stuart Utilities

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Utilities (Utility Board)

The City of Stuart provides electricity and water for Stuart residents. There is a fee for connection, and a deposit is required. You can pay your utility bill in person at City Hall, 119 E. Front St. (either in the office or in the handicapped-accessible drop box outside the building), or you can mail your payment there. Call City Hall, 523-1455, for more information.

MidAmerican Energy Company provides natural gas for Stuart residents. For connection information, call 1-888-427-5632.

Telephone Service

Qwest provides telephone service for Stuart residents. For connection information, call 1-800-244-1111. Stuart's area code is 515. There is no long distance charge for calls from Stuart to our neighbor towns Menlo and Dexter or to Des Moines and its immediate suburbs (West Des Moines, Clive, etc.). For these calls, you need only dial the 7-digit phone number. For all other calls, you must dial 1, then the area code, then the 7-digit phone number.

Cable TV

Mediacom provides cable TV service for Stuart residents. For connection information, call 1-800-432-9213.

Mail

Stuart's zip code is 50250. In general, you can have your mail delivered to a streetside mailbox at your house or, for a fee, to a box at the post office. In either case, you must stop by the post office to have your mail delivery started. The post office is located at 208 NE 2nd St. The phone number is 523-2716.

Trash Collection

Trash is picked up once a week in Stuart. If you live south of Front Street, your pickup day is Monday. If you live north of Front Street and east of Division Street, your pickup day is Thursday. If you live north of Front Street and west of Division Street, your pickup day is Friday.

You are limited to 2 bags of trash which weigh no more than 130 pounds total, per week. If you have more than the limit, you can purchase stickers for the additional trash at City Hall.

Do not include the following items in your trash: recyclable materials (see below), hazardous waste, yard waste (cut grass, leaves, weeds, tree limbs, etc.), dirt, rocks, lumber, ashes, plaster, iron, used oil, batteries, tires, appliances, furniture, and carpets. Yard waste can be taken to the city brush site on the north side of SE 6th Street between Sherman and Madison Streets; no man-made materials are accepted there. Some of the other items can be taken to the Adair County landfill; call 1-641-743-8343, for more information.

Recycling & Redemption

You can recycle newspapers, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper (catalogs, magazines, phone books, cereal and shoe boxes, junk mail, and white paper); steel, tin, and aluminum cans; clear glass; and plastic bags, milk jugs, and other plastics. Place your recyclables in the bins at the Adair County Recycling Center, located in front of the City Shed on the alley behind the Cyclone Drive-In.

You can redeem pop and beer cans and bottles at the West Central Redemption Center, 121 S. Division St., 523-1400.