Morristown Township employees are working from 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday to clean up debris from the Oct. 29 winter storm, Administrator Timothy Quinn said.
In addition, the township brought in outside contractors, disposal companies with 40-yard roll-off containers.
All this is going to cost the township about $300,000, Quinn said, mostly in overtime for the Department of Public Works and in contractor costs.
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The brush from the storm is about two weeks from being completely picked up, even considering the DPW will have to got back to some streets a second time. After the storm debris is cleared up, the workers will have to start picking up leaves. That chore should be done by the third week in December, Quinn said. That would only be a week later than originally scheduled, he said.
Of course, that all depends on the weather. Quinn and the DPW are hoping there will not be another snowstorm before the leaves are collected. Having to plow with the leaves in the road would complicate matters.
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The township, along with Morris Plains, Parsippany and Morristown, has worked out an arrangement with the Morris County Park Commission to keep the debris behind the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital until it is mulched. Some time next year, the mulch will be distributed.
