Christmas trees still not picked up

AGAWAM, Mass. (WWLP) - Dead Christmas trees are still sitting on sidewalks as towns try to figure out how to deal with the problem.

In Agawam, the tree pick-up day followed a giant snow storm. Many trees were buried under snow banks and many of them were not revealed until a few weeks ago.

Agawam says that people can stop by the town hall and get a pass to Bondi's Island to drop off the trees, or they wait until the April bulk pick-up.

Town residents say that they have several houses on their street with trees still on the lawn. "They obviously had the intentions of picking these up, but it took three days to go that high, the trees were buried under so much ice and snow, there wasn't anything they could do about it," Richard Goodnough of Agawam said.

"We were told if we didn't get out of the tree belt, we'd get a fine, so we pulled it into the yard. It's back out here now, hopefully someone will come and get it," said Scott Gambel of Agawam.

Agawam says that their waste removal company may make another tree run before the April bulk pickup.