Fall Tentative Leaf Pickup
2009

Pickup Zones and Streets

Fall Pick-up Program -- From mid-October through mid-November, the Highway Department collects fallen leaves, grass clippings, and tree branches.  Leaves must be placed in reusable containers or paper bags*, or piled neatly along the sides of the road, not so high or so wide as to obstruct roadways or line of sight and not in the roadway itself.    Placing debris into the roadway constitutes a violation of the Vehicle and Traffic law as well as creates a hazardous situation for pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular traffic.  Please make sure that storm sewer inlets are also kept clean of leaves and branches to ensure proper drainage.

Leaves are picked up by Zones within the Town. We start in Zone 1 and work through each street until all the leaves are picked up in that zone. We then move to the next zone and continue the process until all Zones have been picked up.  Leaf collection will continue until all leaves are picked up pending no significant snowfall.

Highway Zone Map

*Yard Waste Paper Bags can be purchased, 3 for $1 at the Highway Department, Elm Avenue Park, Town Hall, and Rupert Road Transfer Station.

Pickup Zones and Streets

Disclaimer:

Weather conditions play a major role in whether or not a schedule can be kept.  If it rains or snows, the leaves are more difficult to pick up making the amount of work able to be accomplished variable from day to day. If the weather is nice, many homeowners and landscapers rake the leaves for which they are responsible within the same time period; this puts large amounts of leaves on every street in the Town all at one time.

At this time of year, over half of our staff and vehicles are dedicated to the collection program.  In addition, we hire a dozen or more part-time employees through temporary placement agencies.  It would be impossible to add more trucks and help to the program while taking care of the many other job duties for which we are responsible. Leaf collection is the primary focus of our operation at this time of year.

Vehicle breakdowns and failure of the scheduled help to show on a given day are also factors in not keeping to a strict schedule. The leaf collection trucks are always the first to be filled with the employees on hand. At times, even the brush collection trucks, which have a published schedule, start running a day behind due to the sheer amount of bags that need to be picked up.

To find what Zone your street is in, either scroll down or choose the first letter of your street name, below

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