After a long and dreary winter of removing ice from the driveway and shoveling snow from sidewalks, Windham residents are now taking a long look at their yards and once again collecting leaves and brush that may have built up on their property since last fall.
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| The Windham Leaf and Brush Disposal Site will open starting at 7 a.m. Saturday, April 19 and will close for the season at 6 p.m. Sunday, May 11. The facility is at the end of Enterprise Drive off Route 302 behind the self-storage building in Windham. COURTESY PHOTO |
The site will be open only for the disposal of leaves and brush and is located at the very end of Enterprise Drive off Route 302 behind the self-storage building in North Windham.
Windham DPW officials ask that residents dropping off items for disposal separate leaves from brush and place them in the appropriate areas where the marked and posted signs indicate.
For those transporting leaves to the site in paper or plastic bags, DPW requests that the leaves be removed from the bags and the bags taken back home for proper disposal. They also ask that residents not take any brush or branches larger than 12 inches in diameter to the site for disposal. Grass clippings are allowed but large heavy tree stumps are not.
As a reminder, residents are not allowed to dump garbage, metal trash, used televisions or appliances at the town’s Leaf and Brush Disposal Site.
Windham DPW reminds town residents that leaves are not collected at the curb by the town, and bags of leaves should not be placed in recycling bins for collection.
Typically, about 400 to 500 yards in cubic feet of leaves and unwanted brush are collected each spring at the town disposal site every year during the spring season.
To use the service, load up your vehicle and take it to the site, which is located behind the self-storage units on Enterprise Drive to the left. It will be open 24/7 to town residents.
While Windham's Public Works department once handled both spring and fall brush disposal services, the town now is assisted in this bi-annual collection by R.J Grondin and Sons, a family-owned construction company.
Larry Grondin, vice president of Grondin and Sons, said that it was a "good fit" to offer the town assistance with brush disposal.
"After we helped with Public Works' new building, the initial plan was to just help out while construction was taking place,” he said. “Though we settled on us taking over with the brush disposal entirely since they no longer had the room for it. It's worked out so far for us both and we like working with them."
All materials gathered during the spring and fall brush seasons are given new life through Grondin and Sons.
Instead of burning the leaves and brush like residents in the past once would, Grondin and Sons instead repurpose the organic materials. The leaves are composted, and wood-based materials go toward creating heating materials.
Grondin said it’s great knowing that the leaves and brush gathered are repurposed rather than sent to a waste facility. The disposed materials gain a new purpose, and it also provides residents with a local site place to self-dispose of leaves and brush free of charge.
For further details about Windham’s Leaf and Brush Disposal Site, call the Windham Public Works Department at 207-892-1909 or visit www.windhammaine.us. <
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