Leaf Collection

Service crews collect leaves that have been raked into piles at the curb or in the tree line. Leaf vacuum machines are pulled by trucks housing large volume boxes for collection. These trucks will pass each New Albany home to collect leaves at least five times and collect roughly one million pounds of leaves. Please call 614-855-0076 with questions.

• Please rake leaves to the end of your yard but not in the street and not in public island areas around your home.
• Avoid placing leaf piles near mailboxes, trees, lights, signs or shared public areas.
• No branches, twigs or grass clippings will be collected, only leaves.
• Leaves under or behind parked cars cannot be collected. Avoid parking in the street until after leaves have been collected.
• Leaves will be collected on a weekly basis in alternating zones, with areas south of Dublin-Granville Road collected one week and areas north of Dublin-Granville Road collected the next week.
• Place leaves at the curb before 7:00 AM on the Monday of each collection period. The Public Service Department cannot guarantee collection of leaves placed at the curb after this time for the given collection period.
• Please keep leaves out of storm water sewers and stream banks. Leaves cause bacteria that depletes oxygen and can kill fish and other stream organisms.
• Leaves can be collected during scheduled yard waste collection dates if they are placed in paper yard waste bags or in a container marked “yard waste”; or leaves can be taken to the nearest yard waste drop-off facility: Kurtz Bros. You may also choose to keep light clippings and mulched leaves on your lawn to build better soil.

The New Albany Leaf Collection Program is intended only to collect leaves that have been properly bunched and placed at the curb within the right-of-way for disposal during a two month period from mid-October to early December. There is a very small window of opportunity to collect the leaves from the time they fall until winter weather begins. Once the leaves are covered by snow or are frozen, the leaf vacuum machine cannot collect them and service crews must attend to snow removal operations.

Other Options

• Utilize a mulching lawnmower and mulch leaves back into the lawn. This provides nutrients for the soil.
• Please leaves in and around plant beds and under trees and shrubs. This provides nutrients for the soil and insulates plants.
• Utilize New Albany’s weekly Rumpke yard waste collection service by placing leaves in biodegradable bags or containers labeled “yard waste” and placing them at the curb.