Curbside leaf pickup in Mayetta

If you're looking into curbside leaf pickup in Mayetta, what is over the yard decides most of it.

What people notice first

• Leaves out too early in Barnegat, and a violation for it
• Loose piles raked in a township that only takes brown paper bags
• One pass a month, and the truck already went by

Why this comes up in Mayetta

Here's what makes Mayetta particular: pine-dominant with scattered oak. Needles rather than broad leaves are the recurring problem, and they behave differently — they mat rather than pile.

Mayetta is a quiet inland pocket of Stafford Township west of Route 72, and that shapes what shows up under these houses.

What access looks like here

Straightforward driveway access on most streets, with room to work.

Stafford Township handles permitting for work at this address.

The way this is usually done

The yard is raked and blown to the curb in whatever form your township actually takes — loose in a neat row for Stafford, clear bags or loose for Barnegat, brown paper or a 32-gallon container for Lacey — timed to your zone's week rather than to a general idea of when collection happens, and kept clear of the pine needles and twigs that get a pile skipped. Where the pass has already been, or there is more than it will take, the same crew loads it and hauls it instead.

$75 – $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.

The right answer depends on your specific property, which is why someone has to come out and look.

Stafford Township collects leaves loose at the curb, which is what makes this worth buying in Mayetta: the crew rakes, the township disposes. 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.

Mayetta 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.