Commercial snow removal in Tenafly, NJ
Tenafly 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.
Tenafly has 65 miles of public road in it and the town itself plows 55 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 Tenafly, priced from that history rather than from a guess, so a brutal February does not change the number. Call (973) 459-0074.
Tenafly has 65 miles of public road in it, and 55 of those miles belong to the town itself, with 10 more split between Bergen County, NJDOT and an authority route. 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 Tenafly
Tenafly gives owners or tenants 12 hours of daylight after the snow stops to clear the sidewalk.
If it is not done, the Director of Public Works can have it cleared and the cost is collected as a lien on the property.
Snow may not be put into the street, except that in the B1 and B2 districts it may be piled within two feet of the curb, finished before 9 a.m. on the first business day after the snow stops.
Source: Tenafly Borough Code §12-3 to §12-3.2. Compare every town's rule →
Who we work with in Tenafly
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Snow removal in Tenafly: common questions
Tenafly gives owners or tenants 12 hours of daylight after the snow stops to clear the sidewalk. If it is not done, the Director of Public Works can have it cleared and the cost is collected as a lien on the property. Snow may not be put into the street, except that in the B1 and B2 districts it may be piled within two feet of the curb, finished before 9 a.m. on the first business day after the snow stops. Source: Tenafly Borough Code §12-3 to §12-3.2. A commercial snow contract can include walkway clearing and treatment so the deadline is met without anyone on site having to remember it.
Tenafly has 65 miles of public road in it, of which the town itself is responsible for 55. That is the 12th largest municipal road list of the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, against a county median of 29.8. Bergen County crews handle another 2 miles here, and NJDOT 7 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 town halls, libraries and public facilities in and around Tenafly, where the bid is priced to what the specification actually says, and every visit is logged in a form that answers a public records request. Nearby towns we also cover include Cresskill, Englewood, Bergenfield.
Nearby towns we also cover
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