ROBBINSVILLE The Department of Public Works is advising residents that fallen leaves must be in a separate pile from brush and tree branches in order to be collected curbside.
Collection of leaves will take a priority over brush due to the fact that the state Department of Environmental Protection requires the town to advertise a schedule for leaf collection and maintain it.
Residents that prefer to bring their leaves to the drop-off facility at 56 Robbinsville-Allentown Road, instead of waiting for curbside pickup, may do so Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (excluding holidays).
In addition, if a resident pays a private contractor to cut their trees, the private contractor is responsible for removing the brush. A township ordinance prohibits the curbside pickup of commercial tree trimmings.
Brush and leaves must be separated, and not be combined in the same pile.
The following regulations pertaining to the collection of tree limbs will be followed as per township ordinance:
Only tree trunks and limbs 6 inches in diameter or less will be collected.
Limbs can be no longer than 6 feet in length.
Piles of limbs and brush places curbside cannot exceed 4 feet high or 15 feet wide and there can be only one brush pile per property.
Small brush must be tied with twine in bundles not to exceed 6 inches in diameter.
Vegetative materials such as hedge trimmings and small sticks must be placed inside open containers, not in plastic bags. The open containers must be free of dirt, stone and other nonvegetative materials.

