New street sweepers in Colorado Springs
street sweepers are on the roads in colorado springs. that’s new at five o’clock. the street sweepers are the city’s first line of defense when it comes to keeping the filth on the roads from the streams and waterways. not only will the new machines allow the city to better comply with the epa’s clean water act concerning dust control… but it will take eight of the worst sweepers out of the fleet of 13. prior to this, we were running some pretty old equipment. some of it, a decade old and it just wasn’t dong the job for us. the sweepers were leased using the city’s general fund for a total of 380-thousand dollars annually for five years. the