You can hear the Dundee Dam from a few streets off when the river is running high, and it sounds the same in August as it does in February — which is roughly how the year goes around here. Lane Contractors keeps Passaic properties through both halves of it: mowing, edging, hedge work, mulch and cleanups while the ground is soft, then plowing, shoveling and salting once it is not. The turnover weeks are the hardest ones, when the last leaves come out of the beds and the salt gets loaded in the same seven days. One crew across the whole calendar means the beds know where the plow travels and the plow knows where the beds start. Nothing gets torn up in January that somebody planted in May.