Remember this thread when Hal is asking for street sweepers

The largest expenditures for street sweeping programs are in staffing and equipment. The capital cost for a conventional street sweeper is between $60,000 and $120,000. Newer technologies are higher than that, with prices approaching $180,000. The average useful life of a conventional sweeper is about four years, and programs must budget for equipment replacement. Sweeping frequencies will determine equipment life, so programs that sweep more often should expect to have a higher cost of replacement.

A leaf removal truck may last a lot longer and cost a lot less to maintain do the paperwork and again look at who runs the DPW and suggest some thought on this issue.

Even Rowtaton would want to save money think about it its not just about where you live.Didn’t this thread start with the cost of conventional method to pick up leaves.Yes there is more data that suggests a street sweeper is a poor choice for any DPW to use for leaf removal.

“as the band plays on”

This service in Rowyaton was going on all of last week,they do each street the same way,wet the leaves in the gutter and then come along with a street sweeper and pick up the leaves and dump into waiting DPW trucks.I find it was wasting a lot of labor fuel and street sweepers are built to pick up dirt at intersections not leaves.

Yes street sweepers pick up leaves so cars don’t slide at stop signs but what I saw was a waste of machinery and it wasn’t at intersections it was along the Mcmansions so you tell me what we are spending our money on while the rest of the city is trying to save money.My curb and gutter never see’s a street sweeper besides picking up my 100 feet of leaves in the gutter hasn’t killed me yet.

This is a classic example of what we have running the department that girl with the attitude needs to be replaced so maybe we can start with asking her take on leaf removal in Rowyaton when the rest of Norwalk gets nothing like that.

before another suggests then leaves clog the drains I checked later most of those Rowyaton non primary streets don’t have drains.

“as the band plays on”

How many men does it take to pick up leaves in Norwalk should be a new joke,I’m still laughing at what I saw five trucks 7 men to do the work of one truck and two men.

“as the band plays on”