Owosso's last leaf section, N8, gets its first pass Thursday

Owosso's leaf sweep reaches its final section Thursday. In an update posted Nov. 4, the city said public works crews completed section S7 and most of S8 that day, and that crews "will finish S8 and then move into N8 tomorrow, expecting to complete the first round."

N8 is the sixteenth and last stop in the city's fixed order: N1, S1, S2, N2, N3, S3, S4, N4, N5, S5, S6, N6, N7, S7, S8, N8. Every one of the city's updates repeats that order.

The updates use section codes. To find your section, use the map in the city's 2026 Leaf Brochure and Map, posted Sept. 28.

The city posted three updates in four days as the season closed out. On Monday, Nov. 2, Owosso said crews had completed "the trunklines" and would finish N7 and most likely move into S7 the next day; the brochure lists the trunklines as M-21, M-71 and M-52. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, the city said crews completed N7 and most of S7, and would finish S7 and move into S8. On Wednesday came S7 and most of S8.

The Current reported on Oct. 28 that crews had finished through S5, were nearly done with S6, and that five sections, N6, N7, S7, S8 and N8, were still waiting on a first pass. The Nov. 4 notice puts the end of the first round at Thursday, Nov. 5. The brochure had set it for Oct. 19 through Oct. 30.

A second round follows, the brochure says, in the same order, set for Nov. 3 through Nov. 23, with curbside pickup running through Nov. 25. A third round is possible if needed and conditions permit. After the final collection, residents are responsible for leaves they put in the street and may be fined.

Leaves go in the street, not behind the curb or in bags, the brochure says. The exceptions are Shiawassee Street, Main Street and Corunna Avenue, where leaves go behind the curb, between the curb and the sidewalk. Keep piles five feet from catch basins and keep brush out of them. Crews do not pick up on private streets or drives, alleys or at commercial establishments.

On brush, a separate program, The Current reported in September that the final 2026 pickup began Sept. 30, that crews make no second trips down a street once it has been done, and that brush collection does not resume until March 31, 2027.

What happens next

Crews were to finish S8 and start N8 on Thursday, Nov. 5, completing the first round. The city posts leaf updates to its website at ci.owosso.mi.us and its Facebook page.