2024 Free Leaf Pick Up – East Side
October 28 @ 6:00 am - November 1 @ 5:00 pm
FREE Leaf Disposal Options and Information
Option One – Paper Bags: Residents may bag their leaves in paper lawn bags and Groot will pick them up for FREE on their service day during October and November. Yard waste (other than leaves) requires stickers and will also be picked up through November. After November yard waste will not be picked up until April.
Option Two – Leaf Vactor: Residents may rake leaves to the curb for the Village’s free curb-side leaf pick-up. The Village’s leaf vactor program will run based on the schedule below and starts each week on Mondays. The Village changes which side of town the leaf vactor will start on each year.
• Residents on the WEST side of the river: October 21, November 4 and November 18
• Residents on the EAST side of the river: October 28, November 11 and November 25
Leaves MUST be out by 6 a.m. on Monday during the pick-up week with leaves being picked up at any time throughout the entire week. Leaf piles should be less than 2’ in height, free of foreign materials (branches, plants, rocks, and landscape waste) and raked in a row parallel to the street, at least 1’ and no more than 5’ back from the curb. Residents are encouraged to park in driveways or garages during this operation, to allow better access for the leaf collection equipment. Please keep leaves away from parked cars, garbage cans, mailboxes, ditches, streetlights, and fire hydrants.
The Village keeps a log of streets that have been serviced and the leaf-vactor truck will not go down streets a second time. If leaves are not raked to the curb by Monday, 6:00 a.m. of your pick-up week, residents will either have to wait for their next scheduled pick-up week or bag the leaves for pick-up. Snow, rain, below freezing temperatures or mechanical difficulties may delay or halt curbside leaf collection.
