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Highway & Parks Department
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| | Frederick J. Piasecki, Jr, |
| Highway Superintendent |
Ernest Matthews - Deputy Superintendent
Lynn Reynolds - Forester
Phone Number (716) 662-6442 / Fax Number:(716) 662-6457
In the event of an after hours emergency, residents should call the Orchard Park Police at 662-6444.
The Town of Orchard Park Highway Department is located at 4350 South Taylor Road
near the corner of Big Tree Road (Route 20A). The department's hours are 7am to 3:30pm,
Monday through Friday.
The Highway and Parks Department is responsible for services ranging from snowplowing and road repair to
planting the flowers and trees you see in our parks.
The following information is intended to be helpful to residents and to enable the department and residents
to work together to make the services being provided as effective and economical as possible.
Regrettably, it is almost impossible for Town snowplowing crews to plow 100+ miles of road without doing some damage to property. Department workers come around in the spring to make repairs to lawns damaged by Town snowplows, reseeding them when topsoil becomes available. The Highway Department also repairs mailboxes damaged by Town snowplows. If a mailbox or mailbox post cannot be repaired, they will be replaced by standard metal rural mailbox and treated 4" x 4" wooden post.
New York State Highway and VMT law, sections 1219A and B, prohibit anyone from depositing snow or other items on public highway. Violators may receive fines up to $250.00.
Weather permitting, the Highway Department begins sweeping Town roads around April 1, rotating the starting point each year. You can help by moving vehicles off the street when the sweeper comes through your area. Please do not put lawn loose raking, small shrubs and tree trimmings to the curb for the sweeper or after the streets are swept. They should be placed in proper containers for regular tree waste pick up as specified in the tree pick up guidelines below.
From May 1 to October 31, the Highway Department, through the use of a contractor, tries to maintain a weekly tree waste pick up. This leaves highway crews free to work on road maintenance projects during the year. However, depending on the volume of tree waste throughout the Town to be picked up, it may take longer than a week and the day of the week that tree waste is picked up on a particular street may vary. During the remainder of the year, tree waste is picked up by the Highway Department, but as weather and scheduling permits. In an effort to maintain a timely and cost efficient tree waste removal program, we kindly request that residents:
- Please place all tree waste at the roadside in front of residence in orderly piles with butt-ends facing the road. Limbs and branches should not exceed four (4) inches in diameter and twelve (12) feet in length or be piled more than 3 feet high. This material will be chipped and made available to residents at the Highway Department.
- Please cut all limbs and tree stock exceeding four (4) inches in diameter into lengths of eighteen (18) to twenty-four (24) inches maximum and pile neatly and separately at the curb.
- Please place all stumps and shrubs at the curb, in a separate pile with dirt removed from the roots. Stumps are not to exceed two hundred (200) pounds.
- Please place all hedge clipping, rakings, leaves and small tree waste (not grass and garden waste) in an open garbage can or biodegradable paper bags and place at the roadside. Leaves will be picked up loose at curbside only during the fall season starting in the month of October.
- Grass clippings and garden waste may be bagged and put out for the regular weekly garbage collection to be included in the eight (8) item limit that can be placed to the curb. Grass clippings and garden waste may also be taken to one of the area locations of Natural Environmental Inc. for disposal. Call their office at 824-3766 for rates and details.
- Please be advised that the Town of Orchard Park will not pick up tree waste removed from lots where there is no established, occupied dwelling. For this reason, it is recommended that tree waste not be piled on vacant lots for pick up.
- Please be advised the volume of tree waste pickup is restricted to that generated by basic tree trimming and occasional tree removal. Excessive amounts of tree waste comparable to that produced by lot clearing, whether generated commercially or individually, will not be picked up.
- Please be advised that railroad ties, fencing, lumber, old deck material, construction waste and other similar items will not be picked up with tree waste. Contact the Town's current sanitation contractor, Natural Environmental, Inc. for information on how to have these items, with the exception of railroad ties, picked up in limited quantities with the weekly garbage. Construction, residential and other non-hazardous waste (including railroad ties) can be taken to one of the area locations of Natural Environmental, Inc. Call their office at 824-3766 for information, rates and details. The Town of Orchard Park does not own or maintain a dumpsite. Any material, other than tree waste, must be disposed of privately.
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The free mulch day will be Saturday May 12, 2007 from 8am to 4pm.
The spring of 2003 marked the opening of the Orchard Park Compost Facility. Located at 6909 Milestrip Road Orchard Park -- Phone (716) 667-6066
The yard waste picked up by the Town of Orchard Park is now delivered to the new Compost Site. The leaves are fluffed up and placed into windrows. Wood materials are run through a grinder one or more times as necessary to achieve a desirable sizing, and then placed into larger windrows. When the processing phase is completed, these refined compost and mulch products will be offered for sale at the facilty. The proceeds will be used to help defray operating expenses.
The hours of operation for the Compost Site are:
Monday through Friday 8AM to 5PM and Saturday 8AM until noon.
The cost of Compost/Mulch is:
Resident $14.00 per cubic yard
Non-Resident $22.00 per cubic yard
Residents: $3.00 per container up to 30 gallons
Non-Residents: $5.00 per container up to 30 gallons
PAYMENT BY CHECK OR TOWN VOUCHERS ONLY.
CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED ON SITE. PAYMENT MAY BE MADE BY CHECK OR WITH TICKET VOUCHERS AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT THE TOWN TAX RECIEVER'S OFFICE
The following materials will be accepted at the Compost Site for recycling in modest volumn by town residents only.
Tree trimmings
Tree trunks up to 18"
Tree trunks up to 250 lbs.
Leaves
ALL MUST BE FREE OF PAPER AND PLASTIC ETC.
Town residents can deliver materials describe above free of charge to the Compost Site. Landscapers will be charged a modest tipping fee and are required to procure a dumping permit in advance from the Town Clerk.
Each year the Town Forestry Department plants between 50 and 75 two-inch diameter trees in the Town right-of-way in the front of residents' properties. Depending on the number of existing trees on your property, you may be eligible for a tree. Eligible residents are entitled to one tree. Call the Highway Department with your request. The Town Forester is available to answer any questions residents may have regarding trees on Town or private property.
Anyone digging within the right-of-way of a Town road must obtain a Town of Orchard Park right-of-way permit (separate from a building permit) from the Town Clerk's Office and have it at the job site while work is being done. Rules and regulations and specifications for back filling are provided with the permit. Any work done within the right-of-way of the Erie County Highway Department or New York State highway also requires a permit to be obtained from the respective entity. New York State Law also requires that, before digging commences, the Underground Facilities Protection Organization (UFPO) must be contacted at 1-800-962-7962 so that all utilities in the work area can be marked. This also applies to private property. This service is free. Invisible dog fencing, sprinkling systems, landscape rocks, timbers, shrubbery and trees should not be installed or planted in the right-of-way of Town roads.
Click here for information about recycling in the Town of Orchard Park.
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