There is nothing worse than coming out to your car and seeing a yellow envelope peaking out from your door jam, especially when it is for a street sweeping ticket. This year, the city is offering email reminders so that you should never have to worry about getting a ticket again. To sign up for free, click here. It's super easy and only takes a few minutes.
To me, it always seemed like street sweeping was a waste and mostly used for collecting money from tickets. But after reading more about it, it is obvious it has some important benefits. According to the city website, it reduces air and water pollution. Last year, 41,335 cubic yards of debris was removed from 113,700 miles of Denver roads. This is very important because the water from our drains eventually makes its way back to our streams so keeping as much debris and contaminents out of the streams is always important.
To help residents do their part to help keep the water clean, the city recommends taking these steps. To read more, click here.
- Don't overuse fertilizers and pesticides. Follow manufacturer's recommendations, sweep up any excess and try not to fertilize when the weather forecast calls for rain.
- Don't place yard clippings and landscaping materials in streets and gutters. Also don't sweep leaves into streets and storm drains.
- Don't place dirt or mulch for landscaping projects in the street. Cover stockpiled materials when not is use
- Litter Plastic bags, bottles, cigarette butts and other litter washed into waterbodies can injure ducks, fish, birds and other wildlife.
- Pet Waste Pet waste left on the ground contains harmful bacteria and excess nutrients that wash into storm drains and the into waterways where they increase public health risk for water users.Order free pet waste bags now.
- Dispose of Properly Always collect your trash and bag your pet waste before disposing of it in appropriate containers.
- Don't wash your car at home. Prevent harmful detergents and contaminants from washing down storm sewers by using a commercial car wash.
- Don't dump auto fluids into the gutter.Use designated drop-off or recycling locations for disposal of auto fluids.
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