Souderton offers 24-hour police protection, a dedicated volunteer fire company, public works department, sewer, and other special services.

Public Works

The Public Works Department maintains approximately 20 miles of paved roads, with an additional 3 miles of state owned and maintained highway. State maintained streets within the Borough are East and West Broad Street, Harleysville Pike, Main Street and County Line Road.

In addition to road and park maintenance and construction activities, the Public Works Department provides these special services.

Leaf Collection – Spring Collection Added

Just rake your leaves to the curb for the Public Works crew to collect them each fall and spring. This year we expanded our leaf collection program to give residents the opportunity to clean out their flowerbeds and yards in preparation for spring.

Please remember that we will be collecting the leaves with our vacuum equipment. This equipment is designed to pick up only leaf waste. We cannot pick up piles of leaves that contain excessive quantities of sticks, stones, hedge clippings, plant materials, and other trash.

Your assistance in this regard is greatly appreciated and helps us provide this expanded service to our residents.

Christmas Tree Collection

When it’s time to say goodbye to your Christmas tree the borough Public Works Department will pick it up free of charge. Collection dates are announced each fall. Please clear all ornaments, garlands, lights, stands, and any nails or fasteners and place the tree in your front yard next to the sidewalk.

Routine Street Sweeping

The Borough's street sweeping program begins every May and continues through part of June. Street signs notifying you of the schedule are set out the afternoon prior to the day your street is scheduled to be cleaned. Please cooperate with the rules and restrictions by removing parked cars and any other obstructions so that you and your neighbors can benefit from this program.

Monthly Curbside Brush Collection

On the first Monday of every month, the Public Works Department collects brush from residential curbsides. Please follow these guidelines:

• Contact the Borough Office (prior to the collection day), to schedule a collection.
• Tree branches should be 6" or less in diameter and cut to workable lengths of six to eight feet, capable of processing through our brush chipper.

Please keep in mind that this program is only for disposal of tree branches. Small sticks, root balls and hedge clippings should be collected by arrangement with residents' private trash service.

Trash Collection and Recycling

The borough does not provide trash and recycling services. You may contract with a private hauler. Here is a list of the haulers we know operate in the borough:

Allied Waste
731 E. Reliance Road
Telford, PA 18969
215-723-0400

Waste Management of Indian Valley
400 Progress Drive
PO Box 439
Telford, PA 18969
215-257-1142
1-800-328-1717

Ches-Mont Disposal
129 B. South Ship Road
Exton, PA 19341
1-800-710-1333

Heston S. Swartley
215-257-6050

Residential recycling is required of all Pennsylvania residents. To learn more about Souderton’s recycling program, please view the webpage on Souderton at the Waste System Authority of Northern Montgomery County.

Recycling Bins

You may pick up a recycling bin for your home for free at the borough office. Recycling, by law, must be provided by your waste hauler.

Borough counselors are considering offering trash collection services under a single hauler. Read more about this in the fall newsletter.

Storm Water Management

Souderton Borough is responsible to maintain all storm water collection and conveyance facilities throughout the Borough, generally consisting of storm drain inlets, culverts, piping, and outfall points. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection requires all municipalities to monitor, detect, and eliminate illicit discharges that may contaminate stormwater and the water quality in the receiving streams. You may learn more about this issue through the following links:

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
Southeast Regional Stormwater Management

Hillside Cemetery

Hillside North	Hillside South

The Hillside Cemetery on N. Second Street is maintained by Souderton Borough and grave plots are available. After a dispute over ownership and other legal issues, the Borough was granted ownership of the cemetery in 2001. Since then, the borough has worked to restore and improve the cemetery.

Plots sell for $600 each and must be purchased in groups of two or four. Half of the purchase price is dedicated towards perpetual care. Information and further assistance can be obtained by calling the Souderton Borough Office at 215-723-4371.

Burials in the cemetery date back to 1875. Many former council members, former District Justice Grant Musselman, former employee Carl Wismer, and former administrators of the cemetery, Marjorie and Bruce Fenstermacher, are buried there.