November 17, 2008 5:23 pm

Bridgeport Citywide Leaf Pickups to Begin Nov. 17

From a press release:

Citywide Leaf Pickups to Begin Nov. 17

The City of Bridgeport’s Public Facilities Department will begin picking up leaves throughout the City beginning Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, weather permitting.� New this year: residents are asked to place leaves in brown paper recyclable paper bags for collection.

The program will begin in the Red section: � The area of the City north of North Avenue (Route1), including North Avenue to Trumbull Town Line between Fairfield Town Line east to route 8/25 & Seltsam Road.� Pickups then move to the Green section: � The area south of the Trumbull Town Line to Pleasure Beach between Beardsley Park east to Stratford Town Line. Pickups then move to the Blue section � this is the area of the City bounded by North Avenue to Seaside Park (Waldemere Avenue) and east from the Fairfield town line to Water Street downtown.

The City also will continue to pick up leaves and bundled branches after the regular round of fall leaf pickups, on the regular recycling day, as long as the leaves are placed in brown recyclable bags.

The City does not accept plastic bags during leaf pick-up. Plastic bags and other containers of leaves may be taken to the Asylum Street Transfer Station during normal operating hours. The Transfer Station is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Saturday from 7:00 a.m. to 12 noon.

For more information, call 576-7124 or 576-7751.

vaccum

Every town needs to invest in the vaccum to suck up those leaves!
Anon

They cost $275,000.
Anonymous

Norwalk goes around with a water truck and wets the leaves in the street then the sweeper comes and picks them up and then dumps into a third or fouth or fifth truck.We must have a lot of fuel to burn and a lot of man hours suppose a truck for $275,000 dollars would pay for itself in a week the way Norwalk operates.Show me another city who does this ass backwards and uses special equipment like this.

How many men does it take to pick up leaves in Norwalk should be a new joke,I’m still laughing at what I saw five trucks 7 men to do the work of one truck and two men.

“as the band plays on”
Anon

Anonymous 3: I didn’t realize Norwalk picked up leaves raked to the curb and not bagged. Is this a new service?
Anonymous

#4 only saw it happen in Rowyaton,they have to have their streets clean,it was gutter work never saw it happen in South Norwalk thou.You figure they are paying the most in taxes they should get the most in service don’t you think?

This service in Rowyaton was going on all of last week,they do each street the same way,wet the leaves in the gutter and then come along with a street sweeper and pick up the leaves and dump into waiting DPW trucks.I find it was wasting a lot of labor fuel and street sweepers are built to pick up dirt at intersections not leaves.

Yes street sweepers pick up leaves so cars don’t slide at stop signs but what I saw was a waste of machinery and it wasn’t at intersections it was along the Mcmansions so you tell me what we are spending our money on while the rest of the city is trying to save money.My curb and gutter never see’s a street sweeper besides picking up my 100 feet of leaves in the gutter hasn’t killed me yet.

This is a classic example of what we have running the department that girl with the attitude needs to be replaced so maybe we can start with asking her take on leaf removal in Rowyaton when the rest of Norwalk gets nothing like that.

before another suggests then leaves clog the drains I checked later most of those Rowyaton non primary streets don’t have drains.

“as the band plays on”
anonymous

Don’t they pay a lot of taxes in Rowayton? They don’t get the police or fire services nearly as much as the rest of norwalk. Maybe the leaf service makes up for it a little.
Anonymous

So do the job efficiently so we are not buying another street sweeper wasn’t the point to save money and do things the right way not the Norwalk way?

Remember this thread when Hal is asking for street sweepers

The largest expenditures for street sweeping programs are in staffing and equipment. The capital cost for a conventional street sweeper is between $60,000 and $120,000. Newer technologies are higher than that, with prices approaching $180,000. The average useful life of a conventional sweeper is about four years, and programs must budget for equipment replacement. Sweeping frequencies will determine equipment life, so programs that sweep more often should expect to have a higher cost of replacement.

A leaf removal truck may last a lot longer and cost a lot less to maintain do the paperwork and again look at who runs the DPW and suggest some thought on this issue.

Even Rowtaton would want to save money think about it its not just about where you live.Didn’t this thread start with the cost of conventional method to pick up leaves.Yes there is more data that suggests a street sweeper is a poor choice for any DPW to use for leaf removal.

“as the band plays on”