Pile Pick Up Program

The City of Sonora is happy to provide its Pile Pick-Up Program to its residents and property owners.  The Public Works Department hauls most of the green waste collected through the program to the Cal Sierra Earth Resource Facility, located off of Tuolumne Road.  You can assist the Public Works Department in making deliveries to the resource facility by observing the following simple guidelines:

1. Materials must be source separated – brush, prunings, leaves or grass must be left for us in separate piles so that we can unload into separate locations at the resource facility.  If your pile has not been source separated, we will leave a hang-tag advising that it must be separated before we will pick the pile up.

2. Do not place/hide garbage waste materials in your piles –  no paper, plastic bags, pipe, metal objects, etc.  We will not haul rock, concrete, pavement, brick, stumps, or dirt to the resource facility.  If your pile contains any of the above, we will leave a hang-tag advising that it must be removed before we will pick up the pile.  Our program is only for green waste.

3. The length of brush, limbs and prunings should not exceed 4 feet.

4. Piles need to be accessible to the City’s equipment, which includes a dump truck and backhoe.  Do not place piles against fences, walls, rocks, etc.

5. The cost is $40.00 for each dump truck load, roughly 3 yards.

Generally, the Public Works Department offers pile pick up for its residents for lawn & leaf debris only, twice per year at no charge.  Anything other than lawn & leaf debris will have to be pre-paid, with the above rules followed. Any questions may be directed to City Public Works at (209) 532-2922.

Pile Pick Up Form

City of Sonora
94 N. Washington Street
Sonora, CA 95370
Phone: (209) 532-3508
Fax: (209) 532-3511