Town of Qualicum Beach staff will be bringing its chipper machine and picking up material within the town boundary beginning next month.
The fall chipping program is split into two zones; one zone for all properties east of Memorial Avenue and another for those west of Memorial.
According to the town’s website, all properties east of Memorial Avenue should have woody material on the roadside by Monday, Oct. 16. All properties west of Memorial Avenue should have woody material on the roadside by Monday, Nov. 6.
As the chipper travels each street only once, people should have the branches on the boulevard by 8 a.m. the day of the designated schedule.
Only one pile of trees, branches and other woody shrub materials will be picked up per property; grass clippings, leaves and soft plant materials such as perennial or annual flowers will not be picked up. Piles to be chipped shall be a maximum of eight feet by eight feet by five feet; piles with gravel, dirt or roots covered with dirt will not be picked up; four inches is the maximum diametre size of wood waste that can be chipped and material more than four inches will not be picked up; and people are asked to stack the branches at the roadside with butt ends facing in the same direction.
The following number of piles may be left for chipping during each period based on the following: one pile for properties up to 0.2 ha (0.5 acres), two piles for properties greater than 0.4 ha (one acre) and properties more than 0.4 ha (one acre) may leave an additional pile for each adition 0.2 ha.
Larger volmes and/or sizes of wood waste material may be taken to the Regional District of Nanaimo transfer station at 860 Church Rd.
— NEWS Staff/Town of Qualicum Beach
