Chipper Service

Chipper service has new collection zones

The City has revised the schedule and routes of its free monthly pickup of typical yard wastes such as tree limbs, shrubbery pruning, and bagged leaves or trimmings done by Oak Hill residents only.

Oak Hill is now divided into four zones with collection during a six-day timespan of each month.

Zone 1, bounded by Woodmont Boulevard, I-65, Redwood Drive, and Franklin Pike, is collected the first week of the month.

Zone 2, bounded by Woodmont, Glen Leven Drive, Battery Lane, General Bate Drive, and Caldwell Lane, gets pickup the second week of the month.

Zone 3, located between Glen Leven Drive, Franklin Pike, Tyne, and Granny White, is set for the third week of the month.

Zone 4, between Tyne Boulevard, Franklin Pike, Old Hickory Boulevard, Otter Creek Road, and Granny White Pike, is collected the fourth week of the month.

Homes on Franklin, Tyne, Battery, Old Hickory Boulevard and Granny White will not get collected during the regular days but between the 25th and the end of the month.

City to enforce rules for chipper materials

The City begins adhering to its guidelines for collection of chipper material effective October 1. These guidelines have been in place for many years, but have rarely been enforced over roughly the past five years.

Collecting materials outside existing guidelines costs the City roughly $50,000 extra per year. Adhering to these guidelines is necessary to maintain this as a free service for all residents of Oak Hill and to ensure that no one overly burdens the chipper service to the detriment of other residents.

The guidelines are listed at right.

Bags must be marked ‘biodegradable’

Residents may now choose to rake their leaves to the side of the road to be collected by a vacuum truck. Simply rake your leaves into piles near the side of the road, and the truck will collect them. The piles of leaves should be placed in or very near the right-of-way, which usually extends about 10 to 12 feet beyond the edge of the pavement. It is important that you not place the leaves in the ditch, on top of open drainage structures, or in the roadway. If a ditch is adjacent to the roadway, place the leaves behind the ditch and we will still be able to collect them.

When you bag your leaves , you must use either paper bags or degradable plastic bags that are clearly marked as degradable. Even if the box says the bags are degradable, you cannot use them unless the bag itself is marked as degradable. While paper bags are much easier to find in stores, the City has been able to verify that Target stocks plastic biodegradable bags. They are also available online from a number of retailers.

The City encourages residents to time the placement of their yard waste to coincide with their service dates. Piles of material left near the road for long periods of time are unsightly, tend to get strewn throughout the neighborhood, kill the grass, and can become a health hazard.