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Leaf Collection in the Friendly City

Monday, 26 October 2015 05:50

Leaf collection is underway to help clear your yard of all those pesky piles of leaves.

WOODSTOCK - It is only a matter of time before those beautiful leaves end up on your lawn.

Residents living in Woodstock can take advantage of leaf pickup service once again. Works Superintendent for the City, Alex Piggott, says its easy to get your leaves collected. "Residents can rake them out to the curb - they have to be at least one metre from the curb on the road and try to make sure they aren't going to be covering the catch basins. If you did want to bag them up you can bag them up and bring them down to our yard waste depot. We need them to be dumped out because when they go to our composting facility those bags compost at a different rate then the leaves do." 

Piggott explains how they will have every machine in their fleet cleaning up the roadsides. "The crews are out doing the start of the cleanup right now, it is just with the street sweepers, and the vacuum units will start to go out. The trackless vehicles have an attachment on it called a leaf loader it looks like a giant snow blower and that actually blows it into the back of the truck, we use that unit out there in our neighbourhoods."  

"They will be starting into the final cleanup starting the week of November 9th, and we hope to have a final cleanup done by the week of November 30th," says Piggott. "It is strictly leaves only: no grass, debris, twigs, brush, or potted plants."

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