Commercial snow removal in Franklin Lakes, NJ
Franklin Lakes is inside our five-county coverage area. Crews and salt are staged at locations across Bergen County and its neighbors, and crews are alerted more than an hour before the snow is expected to start.
Franklin Lakes has 94 miles of public road in it and the town itself plows 72 of them. None of those miles include a parking lot, its access road or its loading area: those stay the property owner's responsibility however well the public roads around them are cleared. An average winter at the Bergen County station brings 8.2 days with an inch or more of snow and 1.2 with six or more, so a trigger depth decides how often a truck turns up. JRW Services LLC writes seasonal flat-rate contracts for commercial property in Franklin Lakes, priced from that history rather than from a guess, so a brutal February does not change the number. Call (973) 459-0074.
Franklin Lakes has 94 miles of public road in it, and 72 of those miles belong to the town itself, with 21 more split between Bergen County and NJDOT. Municipal crews work through that list in their own priority order once a storm starts, and county and state routes are cleared by different crews again on a different schedule. A private parking lot is on none of those lists. That is the whole reason a commercial property needs its own contractor: nobody is coming for your lot, whatever the roads around it look like. Mileage: NJDOT, Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, March 2019.
Sidewalk snow rules in Franklin Lakes
Franklin Lakes gives owners or tenants of commercial property 12 daylight hours, counted between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m., to clear the sidewalk. Owners or tenants of residential property have 24 hours, or until one hour before a declared school opening, whichever is later.
The penalty is $50 for a first offense and $100 for each offense after that.
If it is not done, the Director of Public Works removes it and the cost becomes a lien on the property.
Source: Franklin Lakes Borough Code §373-15 and §373-15.1. Compare every town's rule →
Who we work with in Franklin Lakes
In and around Franklin Lakes we're a fit for apartment and multifamily properties: a full lot gets cleared in stages around the cars that never leave, with entrances, mailboxes and dumpster pads written into the scope instead of skipped. How we work with apartment properties →
How many plowable storms a winter brings here, at every trigger depth →
Snow removal in Franklin Lakes: common questions
Franklin Lakes gives owners or tenants of commercial property 12 daylight hours, counted between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m., to clear the sidewalk. Owners or tenants of residential property have 24 hours, or until one hour before a declared school opening, whichever is later. The penalty is $50 for a first offense and $100 for each offense after that. If it is not done, the Director of Public Works removes it and the cost becomes a lien on the property. Source: Franklin Lakes Borough Code §373-15 and §373-15.1. A commercial snow contract can include walkway clearing and treatment so the deadline is met without anyone on site having to remember it.
Franklin Lakes has 94 miles of public road in it, of which the town itself is responsible for 72. That is the 7th largest municipal road list of the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, against a county median of 29.8. Bergen County crews handle another 5 miles here, and NJDOT 17 miles of state highway. None of those crews touch private property. A parking lot, its access road and its loading area are the owner's responsibility no matter how well the public roads around them are cleared, which is the reason a commercial property needs its own contract. Road mileage figures are NJDOT's, from its Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction report.
At the Bergen County station, an average winter brings 8.2 days with an inch or more of snow, 5.4 with two inches or more and 1.2 with six or more, counted across 155 winters. That is the number a seasonal price is built from, because a trigger depth decides how many of those days bring a truck out. The lightest winter on that record had 0 plowable days and the heaviest had 21, which is the swing a seasonal contract exists to absorb.
The long-record station for Bergen County averages 30.4 inches a season, and the worst season on that record was 78.4 inches in the 1995-96 winter. The average is the number people budget from and the maximum is the number that decides whether a seasonal contract was worth it. Both come from Newark Liberty Intl (nearest long-record station). Two towns in the same county can still differ on the ground, because elevation moves snowfall more than distance does.
Crews are alerted more than an hour before snow is expected to begin, so equipment is moving before the first flake rather than after the phone rings. Salt and machines are staged at locations across Bergen County and its neighbors rather than dispatched from a single yard, which matters in a town this size: 72 miles of municipal road means the town's own crews are working a long list before anything else gets attention.
A trigger depth agreed in writing before the season, not a judgment call during the storm. Every property gets a written plan covering trigger depths, priority areas and where the piles go, settled before winter, plus a service report after every event.
Yes, and it is how a lot of our work runs. We are a fit for apartment and multifamily properties in and around Franklin Lakes, where a full lot gets cleared in stages around the cars that never leave, with entrances, mailboxes and dumpster pads written into the scope instead of skipped. Nearby towns we also cover include Wyckoff, Oakland, North Haledon.
Nearby towns we also cover
Wyckoff · Oakland · North Haledon · Midland Park · Pompton Lakes · Allendale · all of Bergen County