Reminder: Leaf Cleanup
Cool mornings are upon us and all our beautiful neighborhood trees are starting to change colors and drop their leaves. A few reminders when it comes to leaf cleanup:
- The city of Columbus does not vacuum up leaves from the curb or clear any street gutters. Please take some time to remove leaves from sidewalks/street gutters. Wet leaves can create dangerously slick sidewalks. Also the gutter drains get blocked not allowing water runoff from rain or ice melt to make it to sewers as we move into the winter months.
- Please do not leave blown leaves in the street or blow them down the street to other homes. This creates additional work for homeowners who are already battling leaves of their own.
- Don’t forget to check gutters and downspouts for leaves. Backups of leaves trap water and eventually ice in the colder months. This causes gutters to separate from homes and could cause blockages and backups in the sewer systems.
All leaves should be bagged and stored until the next scheduled recycling/yard waste pickup. Our community’s upcoming recycling/yard waste pickup dates are:
Monday, October 30th
Monday, November 13th
Monday, November 27th
With regards to this, any chance the association can look into hiring a service to come through the neighborhood once, maybe twice, to sweep leaves from the curb? (Clearly not this year – too late.) Put in front of the neighborhood, they may be interested in this service. I know I would. Bagging sucks. (Be sure to include that in conversation! :p )
Hello neighbor,
The association has looked into this service in the past however it was not commercially offered by many vendors. We are always willing to revisit and explore adding this as a future service to the community. Another option would be to contact local companies and arrange leaf removal or contract with local teens to rake and bag leaves. The trees in our community are certainly lovely to walk under in the hot summer months but when the leaves start to fall they can create a lot of work for many neighbors.
Thank you for reaching out to the association.