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Bagging Your Leaves (recommended)
You can bag your leaves in open bags
or place in open trash cans at curbside on your regular trash day and recycling
day. Although many residents have taken advantage of this opportunity, many
more do not. We hope that you will help save money and keep our streets safe.
Why should you bag your leaves?
- More timely collections and no
inconvenience. Collections are made weekly on your regularly scheduled trash/recycling
day.
- Collections every week. Inclement
weather would no longer prevent residents from raking their leaves for
pickup during a designated week.
- Cleaner and neater neighborhoods.
Streets would not be as obstructed with leaf piles. Fewer leaves would
blow onto your neighbors' yards.
- Safer conditions would exist.
Children would not play in the streets in large leaf piles adjacent to
curbs. There would be less potential for leaves to catch on fire.
Finally, there would be fewer wet leaves on which cars could skid.
- Bagging would reduce the workload
of the Township's fall leaf collection program, with cost savings to
taxpayers.
Township Leaf Collection (beginning last
week of October)
The regularly scheduled Township
collection of leaves begins during the last week of October. Every street has
signs posted when the first leaf collection will take place. This collection
is performed using heavy construction equipment and large dump trucks.
Residents must comply with the following guidelines to ensure pickup of their
leaves:
- Do not rake your leaves until
signs have been posted in your neighborhood.
- Landscape/lawn services must
remove leaves from site.
- Note: Landscape/lawn services may
use the Kresson Road Ecology Site at no cost. Permits may be picked up
at the Cherry Hill Department of Public Works.
- Cars must be removed from the
street between the hours of 7 am - 5:30 pm.
- Leaves must be raked to the parkstrip
area near the roadway.
It is always difficult to collect the
leaves at the right time and get everything completed before snow season
(when we need the same trucks ready with snow plow attachments). Rain will
slow down the process. We try our best, but ask for your understanding and
help.
Haul Your Own
Residents who wish to dispose of
leaves are permitted to do so at the Kresson Road Ecology Site at no cost.
NOTE:
- Leaves should be placed curbside
and must not be mixed with other recyclables.
- Check the Township website
homepage “News” for weekly leaf collection updates
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