Wondering if and when those piles of leaves will be removed? I asked our assistant street superintendent, Dan Ratajski, and he said crews are working hard to get them off the streets.
From his response …
The last day to rake leaves into the gutter was November 15th. After that date, we will make one final pass throughout the entire city, so, whatever streets we were on yesterday was our last run down those streets, whatever we do today is final also and so on.
After final pass of streets they will have to bag any remaining leaves and take to the Self Deposit Station.
In the past we have gone back after final run and picked some stray piles here and there but that all depends on the weather. Once we get snow, the leaf brooms come off the trucks and the plows go on.
The department strives to have three crews out daily doing leaf removal, in addition the normal workload of garbage pickup and other services. Learn more here.
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