Dog Waste Removal in Stafford Township, NJ

Stafford Township is where the mainland meets the shore — the last stop on Route 72 before the Causeway carries you over Manahawkin Bay to Long Beach Island. That position shapes the whole town. Beach Haven West is a dense grid of lagoon homes with bulkheads and boat slips off the back deck; Ocean Acres spreads inland as one of the largest planned developments in Ocean County; and Manahawkin, Cedar Run, and Mayetta fill in the older streets near Route 9. From a canal lot to a half-acre in Ocean Acres, the yards are different but the dogs are out year-round.

Water is everywhere here. The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge protects thousands of acres of salt marsh along the bay, Manahawkin Lake sits in the middle of town, and the Manahawkin Wildlife Management Area wraps the edges. On a Beach Haven West lagoon block there is no buffer at all between the lawn and the water — waste left on the grass is one tide or one rain away from Manahawkin Bay and Barnegat Bay beyond it. Forsythe’s marshes and the bay’s shellfish beds are exactly what prompt removal protects.

Stafford also swells with the season and skews older. Vacation rentals turn over all summer on the way to LBI, and the township’s many 55+ communities have residents for whom bending and hauling is genuinely hard. We run the route year-round and around peak Causeway traffic — reset cleanups between renters, quiet weekly service for full-timers, and shared common areas for HOAs and age-restricted communities.