Dog Waste Removal in Little Egg Harbor Township

Little Egg Harbor sits in the far southern corner of Ocean County, where the Pinelands meet Great Bay and the Mullica River. Mystic Island is the heart of it — one of the largest lagoon communities on the East Coast, a vast grid of canal streets where nearly every home has a bulkhead and a dock. Parkertown, Mathistown, and the inland streets along Route 9 round it out, and the township shares a border with historic Tuckerton and the Tuckerton Seaport. It is a boating, fishing, and crabbing town, and the dogs are part of every backyard on the water.

That lagoon geography is the whole story for waste. On a Mystic Island canal lot the grass runs right to the bulkhead — there is no soil buffer between the yard and the water. Whatever is left out goes into the lagoon, then Great Bay, then the Mullica with the next rain or tide. The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge protects the marshes and the Great Bay estuary that all of this drains to, and the bay’s shellfish beds are sensitive to exactly this kind of bacteria. Picking it up weekly and hauling it offsite is the simplest way a waterfront owner protects the water they fish and crab in.

Little Egg Harbor is also a seasonal and 55+ town. Summer homes fill up and empty out, and several age-restricted communities have residents who can’t easily keep up with the yard. We run the route year-round — reset cleanups before the season, quiet weekly service through the off-season, and shared areas for HOAs — through the coastal winters and the busy summers alike.