You can hear the dam at the edge of town once the leaves are down and the wind swings north — water over the spillway, steady, all night long. Kodiak works Pompton Lakes through that turn of the year, when lawns want their last cuts, the leaves cleared, the beds cut back and the whole property put away tidy for the cold. Through the green months it is mowing, edging, trimming, hedge and shrub work and mulch on a weekly footing. Autumn here is short and sudden, and a yard raked bare before the first hard rain saves everything underneath it. Walking off a property in November, knowing it will come back green, is worth the whole cold month ahead.