Commercial snow removal in Mount Olive, NJ
Mount Olive 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.
Mount Olive has 147 miles of public road in it and the town itself plows 125 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 Mount Olive, priced from that history rather than from a guess, so a brutal February does not change the number. Call (973) 459-0074.
Mount Olive has 147 miles of public road in it, and 125 of those miles belong to the town itself, which is nearly all of them. 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 Mount Olive
Mount Olive gives owners, occupants or tenants 12 hours of daylight to clear the sidewalk. In a building with several units, the first-floor tenant or occupant is responsible.
Violations carry a fine of up to $2,000, up to 90 days in jail, or up to 90 days of community service.
If it is not done, it can be removed under the direction of the Chief of Police and the cost becomes a lien and tax on the property.
Snow from private property may not be put into any township street or sidewalk.
Source: Mount Olive Township Code §347-15 to §347-19.1. Compare every town's rule →
Who we work with in Mount Olive
In and around Mount Olive 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 →
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Snow removal in Mount Olive: common questions
Mount Olive gives owners, occupants or tenants 12 hours of daylight to clear the sidewalk. In a building with several units, the first-floor tenant or occupant is responsible. Violations carry a fine of up to $2,000, up to 90 days in jail, or up to 90 days of community service. If it is not done, it can be removed under the direction of the Chief of Police and the cost becomes a lien and tax on the property. Snow from private property may not be put into any township street or sidewalk. Source: Mount Olive Township Code §347-15 to §347-19.1. A commercial snow contract can include walkway clearing and treatment so the deadline is met without anyone on site having to remember it.
Mount Olive has 147 miles of public road in it, of which the town itself is responsible for 125. That is the 3rd largest municipal road list of the 39 municipalities in Morris County, against a county median of 37.9. Morris County crews handle another 15 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 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, which matters in a town this size: 125 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 town halls, libraries and public facilities in and around Mount Olive, 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 Netcong, Stanhope, Hackettstown.
Nearby towns we also cover
Netcong · Stanhope · Hackettstown · Roxbury · Allamuchy · Washington Township · all of Morris County