Columbus leaf pickup crews are running about half a day behind in their pickup schedule. Richard Macy with the city garage says that as of noon Monday, they had caught up with the previous week’s routes and were starting on this week’s.

Macy said that crews will continue running their routes as long as the leaves don’t get frozen to the ground, or workers have to be called off for snow removal. Although the normal cut off date for the leaf routes would be Dec. 15th, Macy said that the routes will continue as needed.

Leaves should be kept loose, and raked to the curb but not into the street as they will block storm drains. Leaves should be out on the same day as your normal trash pickup.

If you still have leaves that need collected after the normal routes end for the year, you can call the city garage and they will take extra requests. You can call (812) 376-2508.