The best ecological management of your fall leaves is to leave them lying around your trees and other plants, and to rake the leaves on paths and lawns into planted areas.

Post these signs and the Public Works crews will not remove leaves from the strip of land next to the street in front of your property.

Use no more than one and a half cups of salt or other deicer for a 20 foot driveway or 10 sidewalk squares.

Follow Slater as he measures chloride levels in Sligo Creek.

Wait for clean-up until nighttime temperatures are regularly in the 50-55 Fahrenheit range. More larvae and pupae will have had a chance to emerge as adults.