LEAF COLLECTION PILOT PROGRAM ALLOWS SOME TO USE LEAF BAGS

If you are frustrated by the Township's leaf collection program that requires you to rake leaves into the street and await a collection vehicle to pick them up, often allowing winds to blow them around and many to be left behind, you may be in luck.

The Township is instituting a pilot program for some Hilton Neighborhood streets that will allow them to use leaf bags to collect the leaves and place them along the curbside.

According to the new Maplewood Leaflet township newsletter,  the township will provide 15 free paper lawn bags to each resident under the program.

It will affect homes on Hilton, Franklin, Lexington, Revere, Concord, Ohio, Oregon, Laurel, Indiana, Florida, Marion, Creston, Princeton, Rutgers, Wellesley, Tuscan Street and Vermont.

Homeowners on those streets can pick up the free bags at the DPW offices, 359 Boyden Avenue. You just need to bring proof of residency.

While the public works department will continue to collect leaves in the street in other areas, they will no longer do so on those streets, at least for this fall season.

See the leaf collection schedule, which begins next week, HERE.

For more information, call 973-762-1175.