A note from Streets Manager Tom Bildstein:
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Leaf Collection Season Begins October 20, 2025 🍂
It’s that time of year again—leaf season! Crews will begin collecting leaves on or around October 20th and continue through December, following the same process as in years past.
Construction Zones
- Active construction on certain streets won’t affect leaf pickup. Please place your leaves curbside as usual—we’ll plan around these areas to ensure collection continues smoothly.
Why Early Placement Helps
- Don’t wait until the end of the season. Early and consistent leaf placement helps crews stay ahead of snow, which uses the same equipment as leaf collection. Timely pickup keeps operations efficient for everyone.
Best Practices for Leaf Placement
To help our crews and protect your neighborhood:
- Place leaves on the tree lawn near the curb,
do not place leaf piles in the street. Leaf piles placed in the street will be ticketed.
It's the Law.
- Avoid blocking catch basins, fire hydrants, or wrapping leaves around trees.
- Keep piles free of sticks, brush, and grass—these damage equipment and delay service.
- Avoid parking in front of leaf piles—trucks can’t reach leaf piles if they are blocked. Our crews will not be returning to collect passed leaf piles for any reason until the next trip around the city. No exceptions.
- Don’t use leaf blowers while crews are working on your property—blown debris can cause injury.
Stay Updated
- Visit
LEAF COLLECTION CENTRAL on our
cityofeuclid.gov website. This is page is updated at the end of each working day.
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation. Our crews work hard to keep our city clean and safe—your help makes all the difference!
Frequently asked Questions
1. Why do you only pick one side of the road and not collect the other at the same time?
While working a section we work from the outside of a section first. Every section has an outside and an inside. The outside of the section most often gets collected first. After collection of the outside is complete, we start working the inside of the section. This is a little more complicated as it requires more turns. When we do this, we make right hand turns. We collect leaves down one side of the street and at the end of the block we make another right. When it is the first street, we have collected we drive past the area that we have already collected and down to the next block. This is where we make a right-hand turn and collect the inside of the next street down. When we come to the end of the road, we make another right to collect the other side of the street we have just collected. This continues until the section has been completed. We only make right hand turns because our tube for collecting leaves is on the right-hand side of the trailer and this keeps our equipment moving with the flow of traffic for safety.
2. Why has the rest of the section been collected but not my Dead-end Street?
Dead ends are collected at different times then the rest of the section. These streets require special vehicles that can access the tight spaces we have. Our Vac trucks collect leaves on dead ends. They work on these areas and tight roads we cannot fit our regular trailer mounted equipment down.
3. Why did they make two passes on my street?
Many yards have leaf piles that were placed or have fallen or blown into the street. Our equipment cannot collect both the street and the tree lawn efficiently at the same time requiring us to make two passes. If leaves are placed on the tree lawn this would not be an issue and we could eliminate this step and improve our collection times.
4. Where have you been and when will my leaves be collected?
We update our website nightly with where crews have stopped working for the day and the direction we are headed once the collection resumes. Check leaf collection central at cityofeuclid.gov
5. What are my other options? Can I bag my leaves, or could I mulch them and leave them on my yard?
It’s always an option to bag and dispose of your leaves in the garbage tote. It is also an option to mulch the leaves in place on your lawn allowing the nutrients to be absorbed back into the yard.
No special request for leaf collection is necessary. We stop at every address multiple times per season.
