Public Works/Highway Department
Message from our Director of Public Works/Highway Superintendent
On behalf of the Town of Gates Highway Department, I would like to welcome you to the Town, and make you aware of some of the services our department offers. The responsibilities of the department vary and include: snow and ice control, pavement maintenance and repair, street signage, curbside collection of brush, fall leaf collection, maintenance of storm sewers and drainage channels and maintenance of all highway equipment.
Specific Services provided by the Highway Department are listed below.
Kurt Rappazzo, P.E.
Director of Public Works/
Highway Superintendent
1605 Buffalo Road
Rochester, NY 14624
(585) 429-8245
Highway Department Documents & Notices
Did you know?
Most of the material the Town picks up is recycled. Small brush and trees are taken to a central facility to be turned to mulch for a contractor to resell. Our leaves are taken to various locations: some go to ECO Park where it is composted and returned to the town for distribution as topsoil. Some get taken by a contractor and composted a topsoil for resale with most of it going to area farms who till them into the fields to add nutrients to the soil. Concrete and asphalt millings get re-crushed and sold to a local contractor to be recycled for roadwork.
Weekly Pickups: Spring, Summer & Fall
- Brush / Shrubs (Piles), Tree branches 6-8 ft. lengths (please make sure they are all pointing in the same direction) Usually Starting Apr. 1st (weather dependent)
To obtain your collection day, please search your street name on our Yard Debris pick-up button above. In order for Highway personnel or equipment to pick up the items listed below, please DO NOT put any of the following in bags or garbage pales, or barrels as we will assume you are putting those out for your garbage / refuse company to pickup.
Pickup of items below may not be picked up on your designated day but will be picked up within the 5 business days as a different vehicle will be needed. To assist us in removing your debris sooner please click on link https://www.townofgates.org/report-an-issue/
- Clean wood cut to 4 ft lengths (no nails or PLEASE bend over to prevent injury) . - NO WOOD FURNITURE
- Dirt (Small piles), Sod, Small Stone, Sand (Small piles)
- Concrete & Rocks (loose piles -at the end of driveway or easement (between sidewalk/street))
- Un-bagged Leaves (Fall season only – beginning late October through December. The schedule for leaf collection varies and make efforts to obtain weekly, weather, and volume permit. After this time please bag them for your normal garbage company to pick up.)
*** PLEASE NOTE: If you (the resident) contract with a PRIVATE tree removal service it is required by Gates Town Code Chapter 133-5 B.5(C) Property Maintenance and Chapter 155- Solid Waste Management of the HIRED CONTRACTOR to properly remove & dispose of the said material **** You may be subject to a fine or penalty.
Highway Department DOES NOT pick up:
- Electronics (TV’s, Computers, Radios, etc.) Residents must dispose of them by bringing them to recycling facility. (Please refer to https://www.townofgates.org/phone-numbers/ for electronic recycling places or contact your refuse company.)
- Furniture (Couches, Love seat, Chairs, Mattresses, etc.)
- Appliances (Refrigerators, Stove/Oven, Washers, Dryers, etc.)
- Grass (Your local garbage company will)
- Paint or other Household Hazardous Waste
- Construction Debris / Building Materials (Drywall, Siding, Cabinets, Roof Shingles or Tile, etc.)
One Time a Year Pickup (usually 1st week in May)
- UN-mounted Tires (2 per household)Please complete the online submission to report any issue(s) to our Highway Department. https://www.townofgates.org/report-an-issue/
Free Mulch ***PLEASE NOTE: the available, quantity of mulch, varies***
Residents may collect and enjoy the free mulch located at the Highway Building, 475 Trabold Road, Rochester, NY 14624, between the Spring and Fall season. You do not need to call ahead.
Plowing
In the winter, snow and ice removal is done by our highway crews. Should your mailbox be damaged during snowplowing, it is the Town’s policy to replace it with a standard rural mailbox with wood post only.
Only Rain Down the Drain!
Help protect Storm water, a natural resource, from pollution. Do our part; if you see a pollution problem, immediately call us at (585) 247-6100 ext 247. Learn more about reducing storm water pollution, visit the H20 Hero website: www.H20Hero.org .
Contact Information
The Highway Department is located at 475 Trabold Road, Rochester, NY 14624. All calls go to the Town Hall receptionist as there is not an attendee located at our Highway Department facility.
Please contact us at:
- Highway Department: (585) 247-6100
- Town of Gates-Main: (585) 247-6100
