Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Department hopes to have pickup completed by Dec. 21.
The Chatham Borough Council agreed to a second limited leaf and brush collection by the Department of Public Works, which they hope will be completed by Dec. 21. Robert Venezia, the head of the DPW, told the council his employees had worked overtime and over weekends since Nov. 26 to complete the first round of leaf collection. In spite of this, residents already put leaves back on the curb in areas the DPW had already collected from. "We just did Watchung on Saturday, and more leaves are there already," Venezia said. Venezia estimates the DPW could complete the first round of leaf pick-up by Wednesday or Thursday, at which point he could either do a second round of pick-up or convert the trucks for snow instead. "We've had two snow storms…
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Chatham Borough Council asks residents to take their leaves to the mulch center, if possible.
Bob Venezia, the head of the Department of Public Works, told the Chatham Borough Council Monday night that the second round of leaf pick-up has been postponed due to the early winter snowstorm in October. "We got through the first round," Venezia said, but he said the DPW will likely only complete one more round before winter weather sets in. Typically, he said, the DPW completes three rounds of leaf collection in the fall between late October and early November. Part of the reason for the delay is brush pick-up from the Oct. 29 snowstorm, which left trees, branches and wires down all over town. Since the storm, Venezia said, the department's efforts have been almost exclusively focused on brush pick-up. Venezia said he doubts leaf pick-…
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Monday, November 29, 2010
If you can spend a season picking up leaves, you can do anything in Public Works.
Borough residents have had weekly curbside leaf collection through the Department of Public Works for the last two years. For leaf collection, DPW head Bob Venezia divides the borough into three zones, and a team of four men with two trucks collect the leaves out of each zone. It takes three men to operate the leaf vacuum: one to drive the truck, one to operate the hose and another to help rake the leaves into the hose. A fourth man drives the second truck so that once the first truck is filled, the driver can take it to the mulch area south of the middle school and dump the leaves without causing an interruption in the collection. I drove around with some of the DPW employees in the leaf vacuum this November to show me how the operation …
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kjchat
1:21 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
you can cite "as per the town calendar" all you want, my leaves, as well as my entire block's, have been out since 10/30 and are yet to be picked up once.. not brush, leaves... more ›