Leaf Collection Program Begins October 31st

Curbside vacuum leaf collection will begin in South Windsor on Monday, October 31st, 2016. Crews will start in the Debbie Drive area, Fairview Drive / Norton Lane area, Main Street, the Lake Street / Berle Road and Farnham Road area. Crews will be out on October 27th and October 28th, in high density areas exercising collection equipment to evaluate performance before the start of the program, but will return to all leaf districts on the 31st as scheduled.

Program information and detailed list of streets in the order of collection and will be available on South Windsor’s web page at https://www.southwindsor.org, the 24 hour Public Works Hotline, 860-648-6371. Please follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/swdpw.   

There will be vacuum crews in each of the Four Districts throughout the collection program. Two passes will be made on each street in each district for the season. The last vacuum pickup, depending on weather delays or equipment break downs, is scheduled to start on November 16th. Residents are urged to rake leaves out to curbside as soon as possible before each scheduled collection pass. Residents are reminded to rake only leaves to the curb and not into the street for collection. Leaf piles should be free of sticks, branches and other foreign material to prevent damage or break downs to leaf vacuum equipment.

As a reminder, the leaf compost site on Burgess Road is open to residents and will remain open for the disposal of leaves until December 24, 2016 when the site closes for the season. The drop off site will be open 7 days a week from 7am to 5pm. Residents are asked to remove all containers including plastic bags so the leaves can be composted without the need for hand labor to remove non-compostable material.

Leaf Bag collection will only take place in the private areas such as Lakewood, Victorian Woods, Kebalo Lane and the private roads off of Austin Circle on Monday, November 7th and Monday November 21st. Only paper bags will be collected. All public streets will only receive curbside vacuum collection. Please have the bags out at the curb, in the above mentioned locations, Sunday evening.