Jamestown BPU Yard Waste Site (photo by BPU)

The BPU’s Yard Waste Site will be closed this Saturday, June 3.

The closure is due to the garbage and recycling schedule being delayed a day for Memorial Day. Solid Waste curbside collections on Saturday preclude the ability to staff the Yard Waste Site that day.

The yard waste site is open Wednesday, May 31 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. and then will resume regular hours from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 7, and from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Saturday, June 10.

Jamestown Board of Public Utilities Yard Waste Site

The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities Yard Waste Site reopens for the season this Saturday, April 8.

Hours for the Yard Waste Site this year are 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays, April 8, through November 11; and 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays, effective May 3, through September 27.

The Yard Waste Site is located at 1001 Monroe Street at the dead end of Monroe Street, off Eighth Street.

Customers may discard leaves, grass clippings, mulch, plants/shrubs/bushes; tree parts and brush up to eight inches in diameter.

Metals, sod, concrete, rocks, dirt, lumber/wood, tires, drywall and other construction materials are not accepted.

It’s restricted to use by BPU Solid Waste residential customers only.

Solid Waste customers who want to enter the Site must display a blue colored 2023-24 BPU Yard Waste Site sticker on the rear driver-side window of the vehicle. The window stickers are free-of-charge to BPU Solid Waste residential customers; however, only one sticker is provided for each customer account.

Customers may obtain a window sticker through the BPU Customer Service Office during business hours. Contractors are not permitted to use the site.

For more information, BPU customers may call the Garbage Hotline at 716-661-1651.

Leaf collection

Phase 1 will begin in the Foote Avenue and Ivy Street area, moving west and north, clockwise through that side of town to Washington Street.

Phase 2 is estimated to begin November 14 and takes place in the Foote Avenue, Martin Road, and Linwood Avenue area.

Residents are asked to rake leaves to the terrace behind the curb and not into the street. Please do not put any trash, plastic bags, or containers in with leaves.

All basketball hoops on the street also must be removed.

The DPW is looking for local farmers or composters who may be interested in obtaining leaves collected this fall. Leaves can be brought directly to those interested or collected at a later date. Those who are interested may call the DPW at 716-483-7545.

A reminder that the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities Yard Waste Site remains open to residential customers from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Saturdays until November 12. Call 716-661-1660 for more information.

Also, the Chautauqua Lake Association is reminding Lakewood residents to rake shores and bring weed debris to the curb for pick-up on Monday October 24.

Monday’s garbage and recycling collection will be delayed until Tuesday, September 6. Other collection days will be affected as well with Tuesday’s collection delayed until Wednesday; Wednesday’s collection will be moved to Thursday; Thursday to Friday; and Friday collection to Saturday, September 10.

The Yard Waste Site will be open its regular hours of 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. this Saturday, September 3.

For reports of trouble for all BPU Divisions during non-business hours, customers may call 716-661-1640. During regular business hours, such calls may be made to BPU Customer Service at 716-661-1660.

Jamestown Board of Public Utilities Yard Waste Site

The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities Yard Waste Site reopens Saturday, April 9.

The hours of the Yard Waste Site this year will be 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays from April 9 through November 12; and 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays from May 4 through September 28.

The Site is located at 1001 Monroe Street at the dead end of Monroe Street, off Eighth Street.

The Yard Waste Site is restricted to use by BPU Solid Waste residential customers only.

BPU Solid Waste customers who want to enter the Site must display a mint green-colored 2021-22 BPU Yard Waste Site sticker on the rear driver side window of the vehicle. The window stickers are available free-of-charge to BPU Solid Waste residential customers.

The window stickers are available at BPU Customer Service located at 92 Steele Street. Contractors will not be permitted to use the site.

At the Site, customers may discard leaves, grass clippings, mulch, plants/shrubs/bushes; tree parts and brush up to eight inches in diameter.

Metals, sod, concrete, rocks, dirt, lumber/wood, tires, drywall and other construction materials are not accepted.

For more information, BPU customers may call the Garbage Hotline at 716-661-1651.

Phase two of leaf collection is estimated to begin November 22nd.

Residents are asked to rake the leaves to the terrace behind the curb and not into the street. All basketball hoops in the street also must be removed.

No yard waste, brush, hedge trimmings, garden debris or tree branches will be collected. Those materials, as well as leaves, can be brought to the BPU Yard Waste Site on Monroe Street from 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM on Saturdays through November 13th.

The DPW is also looking for local farmers and/or composters who may be interested in obtaining leaves collected this fall. Leaves can be brought directly to those interested or collected at a later date. If interested, please contact the DPW at (716) 483-7545.

The Yard Waste Site already is open from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays. Green yard waste is accepted at the site, located at the dead-end of Monroe Street where it extends from Eighth Street. A garbage truck is at the site on Saturdays only.

The Yard Waste Site is limited to use by BPU Solid Waste customers who are entitled to one free sticker per Solid Waste account. A new sticker for the years 2015 and 2016 is required and may be obtained at the BPU Customer Service office, 92 Steele Street, open 7 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. weekdays.

Examples of what may be accepted include tree branches, leaves and brush.

Brown yard waste bags are available to Solid Waste residential customers at the Customer Service office. The 30-gallon bags cost $10 for four bags, which includes home pick-up service of the bags, whether collected all at once or individually by the BPU.

For more information about the Yard Waste Site and brown yard waste bags, contact the BPU Garbage Hotline at 661-1651 or BPU Customer Service at 661-1660.