Wayland city crews will begin picking up leaves today (Monday, Oct. 24), continuing through the first measurable, sustained snowfall.
Residents are asked to rake their leaves into piles of the edge of the roadway, but not into the street, which may impede traffic. Larger piles are preferable along the edge of the property.
Residents also are being asked to avoid covering any catch basins with their leaf piles and refrain from piling them any closer than six feet from fixed objects such as telephone poles, mailboxes, hydrants, etc.
Brush and tree limbs are not to be mixed in with the leaves and cars, trucks and other vehicles should not be parked near the leaf piles.
Crews will pick up in the southeast quadrant of the city Mondays, northeast quadrant Tuesdays, brush on Wednesdays, northwest quadrant Thursdays and southwest quadrants Fridays.
I don’t know why they bother putting out a schedule, with the way they pick up leaves now it takes three times longer than when they used the vacuum truck.