This department of dedicated employees is responsible for maintaining Township roadways and storm sewers and includes the patching of potholes, tree maintenance, removal of snow, ice, and litter, erecting and maintaining street and regulatory signs and maintenance of vehicles, equuipment, and Township property. This department is also charged with park maintenance and public sewer operations. New Hanover Township is one of the few area townships equipped to build and pave its own roads. The total mileage of township dedicated roads is over 65 miles. Recycling Trash collection is not provided as a Township service, but we do have a contract with Waste Management of Pottstown which serves all Township residents.
Recycling is a township service at a cost to each household.
Residents are required to recycle aluminum and bimetal cans, glass, newspaper, magazines, junk mail, cereal boxes, and plastic. The cost of trash and recycling is together in one bill issued twice a year. The tax collector is available for tax collection at the dates and times noted on your tax billings.