Seasonal cleanup plan in Cedar Run

If you're looking into seasonal cleanup plan in Cedar Run, what is over the yard decides most of it.

How homeowners usually spot it

• Wanting it handled without booking it each time
• A yard that needs three visits a season, not one
• Oaks that drop over six or eight weeks rather than all at once

Why this comes up in Cedar Run

Dense oak and cedar right up to the houses. Among the heaviest leaf volume anywhere in the township, and it keeps falling well into December.

Cedar Run is a wooded stretch of Stafford Township along the Route 9 corridor, and that shapes what shows up under these houses.

Getting the work done in Cedar Run

Long driveways and deep lots. Access is usually fine but the distance from the back of the property to the street adds time.

Stafford Township handles permitting for work at this address.

How this gets fixed

Recurring visits through the fall — commonly three, sometimes four under heavy oak — plus a spring clear-up. Priced for the season rather than the visit, which is what makes it cheaper than calling three separate times.

$400 – $1,200 — typical range, not a quote. What your home needs can only be settled by a registered contractor who comes out and looks at it.

A crew that works Stafford Township regularly will know the collection calendar without being asked.

Where the material goes at the end of a Cedar Run job is set by Stafford Township: loose. raked into a neat row at the curb — not bagged, and not raked out into the street: the leaves have to stay on the property side of the curb line.

Cedar Run is in Zone 2. second monday of the month. The Sunday evening before your zone's week — not Monday morning. The 6am Monday deadline on the same page belongs to brush and metal, which are separate collections.

Where it stops. One pass per street per month, and no second chance that cycle — the township says plainly that once a street has been collected it will not return until the next scheduled zone week. Pine needles are never collected at all, which on a lot with pines is most of what is on the ground.

Source: staffordnj.gov · checked 2026-08-15. Full rules, every zone and what each programme refuses: the schedules reference.