The City of Marysville anticipates the Leaf pick-up to begin the first week of October.  As a result, brush and tree limbs will not be picked up after Friday, October 2, 2009 until further notice.  The last brush pick up for the city will be on your normal trash day the week of September 28th.  After October 2nd brush will not be picked up until the brush truck starts again in late December or early January.

In order for the City of Marysville to provide an effective and high-quality leaf collection program, homeowners are asked to do the following:

• Please do not rake leaves into the street, and keep leaves away from the storm drainage inlets;  the leaves clog the storm sewers.

• All leaf piles must be free of sticks, limbs and foreign materials including grass, bedding plants, wires, rocks, nails, animal waste, mulch, etc.  Sod and/or dirt is not allowed.  These materials plug the vacuum and cannot be picked up by the leaf equipment.

• All pickup areas must be away from parked cars; the vacuum equipment is unable to maneuver around parked cars.

• Bagged leaves must also be in the paper bio-degradable bags and the total weight of the bag and leaves must be less than 50 pounds.

• All bags must be free of garbage, animal waste, rocks, concrete, dirt and sod.

• All residents in the Hillcrest mobile home area must have leaves bagged year round in paper bio-degradable bags and must be deposited in the centrally located pickup point.  The leaf vacuums are not utilized in mobile home areas.

During normal operating conditions, leaf vacuum crews will collect from each neighborhood on a weekly basis.  However, days/times will vary from week to week in accordance with the amount of leaves that are collected.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Public Service Department at (937) 642-4767 or (937) 642-7305.