Commercial snow removal in Sussex, NJ

Sussex Borough gives the owner or tenant 12 daylight hours after snow or ice forms to clear the sidewalk. The fine is $50 for a first offense, $100 for a second and $250 for three or more. If it still is not done after notice, the borough can clear it and bill double the actual cost. Snow may not be put onto the roadway of any street. Source: Sussex Borough Code §3-3. A commercial snow contract can include walkway clearing and treatment so the deadline is met without anyone on site having to remember it.

Sussex has 9 miles of public road in it, of which the town itself is responsible for 7. That is the 22nd largest municipal road list of the 24 municipalities in Sussex County, against a county median of 30.3. Sussex County crews handle another 2 miles here, and NJDOT 1 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 Sussex County station, an average winter brings 10.3 days with an inch or more of snow, 7.1 with two inches or more and 1.7 with six or more, counted across 67 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 3 plowable days and the heaviest had 21, which is the swing a seasonal contract exists to absorb.

The long-record station for Sussex County averages 35.8 inches a season, and the worst season on that record was 95.9 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 Sussex 1 NW (NWS COOP, records to 1893). 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 Sussex 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 schools, preschools and childcare centers in and around Sussex, where drop-off lanes and bus loops are cleared to your first bus rather than to a route, and the crosswalks children walk come before staff parking. Nearby towns we also cover include Wantage, Hamburg, Vernon.