New Canaan each year sells off its excess composted leaf mulch at the Transfer Station to clear the shed there and bring in new leaves, officials say.
The material will be available to residents through Nov. 15.
This year, under an agreement that the Board of Selectmen approved on Tuesday, New Canaan will sell its 1,400 cubic yards of composted leaf mulch to Lanni Construction at $8 per yard.
Lanni typically “mixes it with other materials, augments it and sells it back out as topsoil,” Tiger Mann, assistant director of the New Canaan Department of Public Works, said at the meeting, held in the Training Room at the New Canaan Police Department.
The sale of the surplus compost to Lanni will bring in $11,200 for the town.
Two years ago, after experiencing problems on Lapham Road where out-of-town landscaping crews were making off with loads of the town’s mulch (which is meant for residents only), New Canaan moved it to the Transfer Station. Only residents, or crews with a resident in the vehicle, can take it. Some people are still going into the cordoned-off area at Lapham Road to take compost from there, though it’s heavy stuff and difficult to haul efficiently given the way the mulch piles at Lapham are arranged, so town officials aren’t worried.