Commercial snow removal in Glen Rock, NJ

Glen Rock gives 24 hours of daylight after the snow falls or the ice forms. The duty is on the owner, tenant or whoever else controls the property, and where a building has more than one tenant it falls on the tenant on the first floor. Owners of business, commercial and industrial premises must also clear parking lots, walkways and any other areas their customers or employees use. A fine up to $2,000, imprisonment up to 90 days, community service up to 90 days, or any combination of those. If it is not done, the borough removes it, the cost is certified to the Council and charged against the property, and the amount becomes a lien added to the next tax bill. No owner, tenant or occupant may throw, place or deposit snow or ice on the street, and no private or commercial contractor may put snow or ice on borough property unless the borough hired them to do it. Ice frozen too hard to lift has to be treated with rock salt or another thawing chemical, or thoroughly covered with sand, ashes or cinders, inside the same 24 hours. Source: Glen Rock Borough Code §188-1 to §188-4. A commercial snow contract can include walkway clearing and treatment so the deadline is met without anyone on site having to remember it.

Glen Rock has 45 miles of public road in it, of which the town itself is responsible for 35. That is the 25th largest municipal road list of the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, against a county median of 29.8. Bergen County crews handle another 1 miles here, and NJDOT 9 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.

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 medical and dental practices in and around Glen Rock, where the lot is cleared and treated before the first appointment rather than during it, and the accessible spaces and the path to the door stay clear all day. Nearby towns we also cover include Ridgewood, Fair Lawn, Hawthorne.