Dog Waste Removal in Lakewood, NJ

Lakewood is one of the most densely populated places in New Jersey outside the big cities — close to 10,000 people per square mile in parts of town — with large families and small back lots. That combination is exactly why a dog yard here goes from fine to unusable in days: there is not much grass, and a lot of feet on it. The dense courts and developments off Cedarbridge, the established streets near Georgian Court, and the newer subdivisions on former farmland all share the same problem, and weekly service is the fix.

For all that density, Lakewood is built around water and green space. Lake Carasaljo and Lake Manetta sit right in the middle of town with a walking loop that never empties, Lake Shenandoah anchors an Ocean County park on the east side, and Pine Park preserves roughly 150 acres of the old Gould estate woods. Georgian Court University and ShoreTown Ballpark — home of the Jersey Shore BlueClaws — round out the landmarks residents route their week around. A clean yard is what makes the rest of that outdoor time work.

Those lakes are not just scenery. The Metedeconk River runs through Lakewood and onto New Jersey’s impaired-waters list for nutrient loading from stormwater, and Ocean County has run retrofit programs in town specifically to cut it. Pet waste is a documented contributor — on a small Lakewood lot it sits a few feet from the storm drain. Bagging it weekly and hauling it offsite keeps it out of the Metedeconk and Barnegat Bay downstream.