Leaf Collection Begins In Rye Brook

RYE BROOK, NY — The Village of Rye Brook’s curbside leaf collection program officially started this week and continues through to the third week of December. It is the village’s goal to provide leaf collection service with a maximum of three weeks between collections at peak periods — weather depending. The village tracks the daily leaf collection street by street and monitors progress against the program goal. This information can be found on the village's website in a week or two once the volume of material increases during the upcoming season.

A successful leaf collection program requires the cooperation of the village, the residents and any lawn care professionals residents might employ. Branches, sticks, and other lawn debris, including stones, used planting pots, toys, broken lawn furniture, fence posts and other non-leafy material must be kept out of the piles. These materials can be unintentionally drawn into the leaf equipment and cause serious injury to the workers and require costly repair to the equipment. Contaminants in leaf piles only slows down collection for you and your neighbors.

Please be mindful of the following program requirements:

• Leaves must be placed in a tight row along the curb line and be a maximum of 4 feet wide.
• Please do not place piles of leaves in the street as it is unsafe for motorists, leaves can clog storm drains (leading to flooding), and it slows down leaf removal.
• Leaf rows must be free of branches, logs, rocks, grass, plastics and other yard debris and leaves cannot be placed in plastic bags. (Sticks and branches can be bundled separately and disposed of on green waste days in accordance with your recycling schedule.)
• If you have any questions about how to pile leaves, please view the web page on "The Right and Wrong Way to Pile Leaves."

Photo credit: Michael Woyton/Patch Staff.