Commercial snow removal in Hillsdale, NJ

Hillsdale gives 24 hours after the snow falls or the ice forms, and the Mayor or the Superintendent of Public Works can allow longer in an emergency. The owner or the tenant in possession of the land abutting the sidewalk and gutter. Penalties are set by the borough's general penalties chapter rather than stated in the snow article itself. If it is not done in time the Superintendent of Public Works removes it and certifies the cost to the Council, and the amount becomes a lien and a tax on the property, added to the next levy and carrying interest like any other tax. Snow and ice, whether off the sidewalk, the gutter or anywhere else on the property, may not be deposited on the street or sidewalk, nor on anyone else's property without that owner's express consent. Ice frozen too hard to remove has to be thoroughly covered with sand, ashes or rock salt within 24 hours. The article expressly does not apply to plowing of public streets by the borough, the county or the state. Source: Hillsdale Borough Code §260-27 to §260-31. A commercial snow contract can include walkway clearing and treatment so the deadline is met without anyone on site having to remember it.

Hillsdale has 48 miles of public road in it, of which the town itself is responsible for 38. That is the 19th largest municipal road list of the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, against a county median of 29.8. No county route runs through the town, 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 1995. 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 property managers and multi-site portfolios in and around Hillsdale, where one contract and one invoice can cover every site you run, with identical trigger depths and report formats across all of them. Nearby towns we also cover include Woodcliff Lake, Westwood, Washington Township.