Commercial snow removal in Harding, NJ
Harding is inside our five-county coverage area. Crews and salt are staged at locations across Morris County and its neighbors, and crews are alerted more than an hour before the snow is expected to start.
Harding has 48 miles of public road in it and the town itself plows 27 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 Morris County station brings 8.4 days with an inch or more of snow and 1.1 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 Harding, priced from that history rather than from a guess, so a brutal February does not change the number. Call (973) 459-0074.
Harding has 48 miles of public road in it, and 27 of those miles belong to the town itself, with 21 more split between Morris 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 Harding
The general penalty applies: a fine of up to $2,000, up to 90 days in jail, or up to 90 days of community service (§237-10, §1-3).
Harding does not allow anyone to sweep, throw or deposit snow or ice into any public roadway or against or around any fire hydrant.
Harding's code has no rule requiring owners to clear snow from sidewalks within a set time. The same section bars piling snow against or around fire hydrants.
Source: Township of Harding Code §237-2. Compare every town's rule →
Who we work with in Harding
In and around Harding we're a fit for town halls, libraries and public facilities: the bid is priced to what the specification actually says, and every visit is logged in a form that answers a public records request. How we work with municipal facilities →
How many plowable storms a winter brings here, at every trigger depth →
Snow removal in Harding: common questions
Harding has 48 miles of public road in it, of which the town itself is responsible for 27. That is the 26th largest municipal road list of the 39 municipalities in Morris County, against a county median of 37.9. Morris County crews handle another 7 miles here, and NJDOT 15 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 Morris County station, an average winter brings 8.4 days with an inch or more of snow, 5.3 with two inches or more and 1.1 with six or more, counted across 55 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 1 plowable days and the heaviest had 24, which is the swing a seasonal contract exists to absorb.
The long-record station for Morris County averages 18.8 inches a season, and the worst season on that record was 88.5 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 Boonton (NWS COOP). 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 Morris 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 Harding, 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 Chatham Township, Morris, Long Hill.
Nearby towns we also cover
Chatham Township · Morris · Long Hill · Morristown · Madison · Mendham Borough · all of Morris County