Village of Ridgewood Division of Street Services – Snow Removal
Before a storm begins, the main streets are pretreated with an environmentally safe solution that reduces the freezing temperature of the snow.
In the first 1-2 inches of a storm, salt spreaders are dispatched to keep the main arteries and hills clear of snow and ice.
Snow plowing will begin when there is at least two inches of snow accumulation. Snow plowing operations can vary depending on the duration and intensity of the storm. During the storm, snow plows will concentrate on keeping two lanes clear on every street.
After the storm passes, the plows will return to widen the streets curb to curb.
PLEASE wait to do your final clean-up after the streets are done. Typically, 2 to 6 hours after the storm is over.
DON’T THROW SNOW ON STREETS
Please do not thrown or push snow into the street. As the snow melts and refreezes, it can cause icy spots or clumps of ice which can cause accidents. If you have a contractor that is plowing the driveway, please advise him accordingly. This includes pushing the snow across the street onto someone else’s property.
Child Safety:
Please keep children out of the streets and driveway aprons while Village vehicles are snow plowing. Often children play in front of the driveway where the snow pile is the highest. The drivers cannot see children hiding and the maneuverability of the vehicles is limited due to the conditions.
Driveways:
When shoveling the end of your driveway during the Village’s snow plowing operations, place the snow to the right of your driveway (with your back facing your house). The snow plow will pass left to right and push the snow past the driveway. There will always be some snow accumulation after the snow plow passes. Please remember that the final pass of the snow plow will be up to the curb line. In anticipation of future storms we need to clear the road as wide as possible.
Garbage Cans:
Place your garbage cans behind the sidewalk on your property or in your driveway and NOT in the street. The snowplows can throw the snow up to ten feet knocking over the cans. Objects in the roadway are our biggest deterrent in efficient plowing operations.
Parking:
There is no parking allowed on any Village street during a snow emergency. Village CBD parking lots must be cleared by 1 AM unless designated an overnight resident permit lot.
Fire Hydrants:
In the event of deep snow, please shovel around fire hydrants near your house – for your safety and your neighbors’.
Sidewalks:
Residents are required to clear snow and ice on abutting sidewalks within 24 hours after the storm has passed. CBD sidewalk must be kept clear during business hours and completely cleared by 9 AM the following morning. Please remember that children are walking to schools and bus stops. Residents with corner properties are asked to provide pedestrian crossing access.
State Roads:
The New Jersey Department of Transportation is responsible for plowing Route 17 and all ramps to the highway.
…and still there are huge piles of leaves on streets all over town.
The leaf pickup was worse than ever this year and continues the steady deterioration of performance we’ve seen recently. Six weeks after the last pickup was scheduled, there are still piles out in the streets. When there is pickup, it’s done in an incredibly sloppy manner with as many leaves winding up on the curbs as in the trucks. So there’s failure at every level, particularly in line management for failure to publish realistic schedules and supervise the work and by the council, who are content to accept this shoddy performance without looking for alternatives.
All these rules and regulations, when is the last time any were enforced? Total bull.
The Aronsohn trio is so focused on issues like high density housing, smoking bans, and destroying the natural beauty of the Schedler property that they’ve lost touch with the things that really matter to voters – keeping streets clean, plowing snow & removing ice, and picking up garbage. Remember what happened in Hackensack. The bums down there were voted out because garbage wasn’t being taken care of correctly. Mark my words, this same thing will happen here. Voters will get fed up with the increasing number of lame excuses and vote them out on their butts.
I have asked this before but have never seen an answer. When trash pickup is curbside, what do the people who staff the trucks do when they are finished in about 1/3 the time. Do they work on snow cleanup?
#5 – I’ve lived here for 20+ years and each time it snows, I put my garbage cans curbside but the have NEVER been picked up!
My trash is usually picked up Tuesdays at about 9:00. I did nit get an email from the village. Did they come as usual?
I put mine curbside today and they picked up after lunch.
Sanitation workers are paid for task work. As soon as the task is done, they can go home.
So then I would expect that the sanitation dept never gets any overtime. Fair is fair.
You can thank your council for that there currently seven st. Dept employees down from twenty something years ago if you have no employees how will the job get done. Instead of complaining he go to a council meeting and ask questions!
311 Why don’t you go to the Council meeting and complain !
and this also explains why they also do a crappy job when they actually get around picking up the leaves, right ?
#5 for some reason i do not think that you are being truthful, never once in 20 years, who are you kidding. Have you ever in twenty years called the village to voice your complaint?
my neighbor pushes snow into the street – leaving a nice pile. sometimes its timed so that the clearing of the street also clears this snow, but most of the time not. today, i watched a town vehicle drive through the pile my neighbor pushed onto the street – would have been better if the town vehicle stopped and “reminded” my neighbor NOT to do this …
i’d describe our local streets as very messy. many will be frozen over for days to come. i don’t know but i certainly feel my local area streets rarely get salt placed on them – and until the temps rise above freezing, the streets continue to have a coating of packed snow all over them.
leaves – yep, still on my block. and of course all over the curve (half made it onto their trucks it seemed, and the other half all along the curbs)
large trees that are unhealthy and need to be removed – yep still around.
lack of manpower? how about seasonal hiring of multi-disciplined personnel (tree cutters, leaf pick uppers, snow removal personnel) ? lack of money? yikes, our taxes are high enough.
they have the money, but they all look good if they don’t replace workers. on paper it looks good, money saved, but in the end the tax people get it up the ass. did any one’s tax’s go down, no. so what happend to all the tax money from the open job;s. all depts in the town are under staff.in the police dept they more cops years a go. so what happend to that money from those open jobs.
so true. to # 15 your taxes are so hight because we pay the b o e and police big money. and we have a paid fulltime fire dept. may be we can use them to do some work in the town when they are slow.Im in town for 45,years they are not bizz 24 7.