Officials Ask Residents to Remain Patient as Branch and Leaf Collection Continues

Wyckoff officials reported that they have been receiving many calls from residents asking why their branches from the recent snowstorm have not been picked up yet. Officials are asking that residents remain patient as collection continues, as the township contains about 90 miles of roads that must be cleaned.

So far, crews from the Department of Public Works have collected more than 87 Dumpsters' worth of debris, according to Wyckoff officials. They have completed districts 1 and 2 and began district 3 Monday. DPW crews are also collecting leaves, but officials ask that residents separate their branches from their leaf piles as the vacuum hoses on the leaf trucks get clogged by sticks.

Mayor Kevin Rooney described the late-October storm as "the hardest to hit Wyckoff" in recent memory. The storm left an estimated 70 percent of Wyckoff homes without power, closed schools for three days and kept local children indoors on Halloween because of all the branches and power lines that came down.