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Ken Zeidner
Citizen
Username: Blackflag
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 10:00 am: | 
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We're new to Maplewood. Does anyone know the policy on raking leaves into the street? I have numerous piles to get rid of, but don't know what to do with them. Thanks for any help. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 3634
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 10:08 am: |
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Assuming you live on a town maintained street, rake 'em into the gutter. Every couple of weeks the town comes along with a front end loader and removes them.
The rules may be different if you live on a county road such as Wyoming or Valley.
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thegoodsgt
Citizen
Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 294
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 10:13 am: |
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It's allowed here in South Orange. In fact, some people are create piles of leaves so large that they impede the flow of traffic. |
jfburch
Citizen
Username: Jfburch
Post Number: 999
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 1:05 pm: |
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There should also be leaf pickup schedule for different areas of town--Town Hall, and libraries should have it soon and it may get mailed (or go in the next newsletter).
It's sometimes approximate, but it can give you a sense of when it might be best to dump that big pile in the street and see it disappear in a timely fashion. |
tourne
Citizen
Username: Tourne
Post Number: 206
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 10:08 pm: |
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Really, the best thing to do with your leaves is to compost them in a bin of some sort in your back yard. It is very easy to do. Search the net for Composting for an enormous amount of info and all kinds of ready made, attractive bins. You can also purchase four foot high 3 or 4 inch fencing to make a five foot circle and dump the leaves inside. Run over the leaves with your lawn mower to shred them up first and it will speed up the composting. You can even buy an electric leaf shredder which fits on top of a waste can to drastically reduce the volume of the leaves. In the end, the resulting sweet smelling compost is great for all living things--lawn, garden, you. It is an unbelievably tremendous waste of energy and natural resources to remove leaves, truck to a central facility for composting or disposal where the resulting runoff from huge piles pollutes streams, etc. |
weekends
Citizen
Username: Weekends
Post Number: 12
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 9:50 am: |
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You don't even need a bin to compost your leaves. Nothing is needed but a hidden spot in the yard somewhere. Rake the leaves into a large pile, sprinkle them with water every once in a while if the weather has been dry, and sometime next summer you'll have free compost for the garden.
Shredding the leaves and mixing the pile up every once in a while speeds the process up considerably. Having the kids play in the leaves (mashes the leaves up) speeds the process up, too.
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xavier67
Citizen
Username: Xavier67
Post Number: 282
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 11:05 am: |
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Tourne and weekends. Can I use your yards to compost my leaves? I'm sort of running out of room...
Seriously, DPW guys at the recyclying center said that the compost that they provide are actually bought from a vendor who takes away our leaves! In other words, the town pays for someone to haul away our leaves, then buys them back after they've been composted.
Or we could just cut out the middleman... |
tourne
Citizen
Username: Tourne
Post Number: 207
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 4:20 pm: |
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I just heard a good suggestion. Go to Sears and get either an electric Toro blower/vac/mulcher or a Black and decker blower/vac/mulcher for $60. Both models mulch the leaves at a 10/1 ratio, are less noisy and non-polluting. They come with a bag that you put over your shoulder. Just go at the piles with the vac/mulcher and use the resulting mulch directly around your shrubs or put in the compost pile. |
Rakin' Man
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 457
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 4:36 pm: |
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Call me rakin' man, I like to rake.
Call me crazy
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thegoodsgt
Citizen
Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 296
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 7:52 am: |
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You're crazy, rakin' man! |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 886
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 8:41 am: |
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Composting is a great idea. For people with a little tiny japanese maple and some pine trees. Sadly, with this 70 foot Oak tree in my back yard I couldnt possibly compost in year what falls from that tree in a weekend at this time of the season. Man I wish I could. 
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