Nic Dovi, City of Cortland DPW Superintendent. (Photo Source: Kevin L. Smith/The Cortland Voice).
The City of Cortland Department of Public Works will begin curbside brush pickup this week, according to city DPW superintendent Nic Dovi on Friday.
Dovi noted brush pickup from the city’s DPW will take place in April, May, June and October. November is also included as an extra month for leaf pickup. Pickups typically occur during the second full week of each month, he added.
The city DPW’s brush pickup will fall “loosely” on the same days of the garbage collection every week, Dovi said. He added that DPW’s brush collection “might take a day-and-a-half to do one of the bigger routes instead of in a day.”
“We require you to have (the brush collection) out by the day of your garbage collection,” Dovi continued. “We might be a little bit later than that (on the tentatively scheduled day for brush pickup), because it takes us longer to pick up all of the brush than the guys who pick up the garbage (Monday through Friday).”
Dovi confirmed if DPW does not pick up a residents’ brush collection on the same day as their garbage collection, it would be OK for a resident to leave the brush collection on the curb “for a day or so.”
“Delays (in the brush pickups) depend on the sheer volume that is out,” he added.
A breakdown of guidelines on what can and can’t be part of a brush collection, which Dovi noted was mailed out to all city residents last month, is seen here.
City residents should refer to the guidelines when it comes to the size of the brush collection that DPW workers can process, Dovi said.
“It’s hard for us to collect huge tree limbs because we can’t do much with them,” he added.
Dovi mentioned an informational guide was sent out to residents on Clinton Avenue, as the third-party contracting company continues to work on the specified area’s Gateway Project.
According to Dovi, bioretention basins were recently installed along Clinton Avenue. The informational guide for Clinton Avenue residents can be seen here.
“It’s to alert people what the functions were, and also not throw all of their brush into those basins because (it is) getting prepped for some shrubbery and landscaping soon,” he added.
