Yesterday I celebrated the return of leaf peeping season. Today I’m, well, not celebrating, but announcing the far less glamorous leaf picking up season.
The city did a fairly poor job of collection leaves last year. Some of this can be chalked up to weather, but the long and the short of it was that people followed the city’s instructions when to put out leaves, the city was extremely late, and the piles and bags of leaves turned into a giant mess in the meantime. In some cases the bags broke open, frozen solid and created a genuinely dangerous tripping hazard.
The city acknowledged its shortcomings and is trying a different approach this year. Instead of giving a far off window for when the crews plan to service a particular neighborhood, the city is waiting until much closer to the date before alerting residents. So there’s no target date for when leaves will be collected in Georgetown as of right now. But we will get a notification the week before our collection. That way the leaves will be out on the sidewalk a much shorter time-frame. The notifications will come a variety of ways, including from door hangers and from the website. I will try to spread the word as it comes in as well. The collections begin October 30th. There will be (at least) two passes through each neighborhood.
Will this work better than last year? We’ll see! It’s hard to imaging it working worse.
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
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