HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT …………… (845) 361-1106
Superintendent
John Lippert 361-1106
Highway Secretary Michele Baker 361-1106
860 Route 17M, Middletown, NY 10940
e-mail address: highway@townofwallkill.com
The
Town of Wallkill Highway Department provides residents with road
repairs and improvements; winter snow and ice removal; and roadway
safety features such as signs, striping and guide-rail for our
165-mile highway network. Additional responsibilities include
roadside vegetation control, bulk and roadside garbage pick-up,
drainage repairs and improvements, and bridge maintenance. This
work is accomplished with a full time crew of 31 personnel typically
augmented with 2 to 4 seasonal employees.
Hours
of Operations
2010 Bulk Pickup
Dates and Info Cancelled for 2010
2010
Brush/Branches Policy PDF
Catch Basin Cleaning
Obstructed Signs
Roadside Parking
Leaf Collection
Mailbox Policy
We Care Press Release
We Care Press
Participants
Roadside Herbicide Application
Hours
of Operation
Mid
April – Mid November:
Monday through Thursday 6:00 am to 4:30 pm
Mid November – Mid April:
Monday through Friday 7:00 am to 3:30 pm
Phone Numbers:
(845)361-1106
(845)361-1844
Fax (845)361-3801
Location:
860 Route 17M
(Intersection of NYS Routes 17M & 302)
At
the TOW Highway
Yard:
Brush is no longer being accepted at the Town of Wallkill Highway Department
yard. Brush is accepted at the Orange
County Transfer Station located at 2455-2459
Route 17M, Goshen, NY 10924. For more information on hours and fees, please call
(845)291-2640 or (845)291-2664. Additional information can be found on the County
website at www.co.orange.ny.us
Leaves
and grass clippings will still be recycled at the Town of Wallkill
Highway Department yard at no charge.
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Catch
Basin Cleaning:
Is
the catch basin in front of your house clogged? If you notice
a clogged catch basin, please call us at 361-1106 so that we can
add it to our maintenance list.
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Obstructed
Signs:
If
you see a stop sign or an advanced warning sign (these are yellow
signs with black legends) that is obstructed, please call us at
361-1106 so we can arrange to have the blockage removed expeditiously.
By notifying us of this potentially dangerous situation, you will
be helping to keep our community safe.
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Roadside
Parking:
The
parking of vehicles is prohibited by law on all highways or any
other public property of the Town between the hours of 12:00 am
and 6:00 am beginning the first day of October in each year and
continuing through the first day of April in the succeeding year,
and during all times in which more than two inches of snow accumulates
within any such twenty-four hour period. The purpose for this
restriction is to allow our snow and ice control personnel to
do their jobs safely and efficiently without the hazard and obstruction
of roadside vehicles. Violation of this law could result in a
parking ticket, or possibly even damage to your vehicle. Please
comply with the wintertime no parking ordinance.
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Leaf
Collection:
The
Town of Wallkill Highway Department collects leaves in the
densely
populated neighborhoods once a year in the Fall. Although weather
and other factors beyond our control make it impossible
to
set
a definite schedule, we will pick-up leaves one(1)
time in each neighborhood throughout the month of November.
WE PICKUP LEAVES ONLY! PLEASE REMOVE
BRANCHES AND LIMBS. The
leaves
can be raked to the edge of the road or placed in bags near
the
edge of the road. By placing the leaves in bags, you will avoid
the frustration of raking
leaves
just
to have
the wind
blow
them
around before they are picked up. DO
NOT PLACE LEAVES ON THE PAVEMENT OR OVER CATCH BASINS! If
you have bagged your leaves, please call us and let us know;
the bags
can
generally
be
picked
up quickly as they do not require the special equipment that
loose leaves do.
Click
to see the Town's leaf pickup schedule
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Mailbox
Policy:
Contrary
to popular belief, there is no statutory or legal authority which
grants a property owner or resident along a public highway any
right to place a mailbox in a highway right of way. The owner
may have an informal license, but this does not endow the owner
of the mailbox with any legal rights in the highway when it is
needed for highway purposes.
The
Highway Superintendent and the State of New York have a duty
to
keep the highway available for public use. Snow removal and snow
storage are incident to that use. When the necessity of keeping
the highway open for vehicles conflicts with the individual’s
receipt of mail, the latter must stand aside. The owner might
even be compelled to remove the box under Highway Law §319.
The
owner has no right to interfere with the speedy and efficient
removal of snow by placing the mailbox in such a position as to
cause this result, and no liability results on the part of the
public official charged with the duty of snow removal if such
box is so placed that it may be injured by proper highway maintenance.
(Informal opinion, Attorney General 2/28/66)
If
your mailbox has been damaged by our plows during a storm, please
call our office. We will send a Supervisor out to inspect the
damage, and if he finds the damage to be caused by one of our
plows physically striking the mailbox, we will repair or replace
it at our discretion. If the damage is caused by the weight of
the snow being plowed off the road (which is usually the case),
the homeowner will be required to repair or replace the box at
their own expense.
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Roadside Herbicide Application
The Town applies herbicide to roadside vegetation annually in
some of the rural areas only as needed. A diluted solution is
electro statically applied by a patented process which eliminates
over use of chemicals to protect our environment. The electric
charge minimizes drift and causes the application to adhere to
the weeds and the benefits are:
• Reducing
repetitive machine mowing, saving money
• Eliminating habitat for ticks that cause Lyme’s
Disease
• Reducing
brush and weeds that impede sight distance, helps eliminate
contact with deer
• Open
up ditch areas to minimize mosquito habitat
• Encourages
ground cover plants to thrive such as daylilies and myrtle
The work is done usually on one day in June or July by a certified
applicator who keeps updated with the latest information from
the Department of Environmental Conservation.
If a resident has a concern with the program and would not want
the right-of-way treated in front of their residence, please
contact the Public Works Department at (845)361-1106 or e-mail
us at highway@townofwallkill.com. We will evaluate your request
and advise you of our decision.
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