While many citizens were preparing for upcoming street sweeping operations, that has all been put on hold. Due to mechanical issues with VDOT’s street sweeper truck, the scheduled street sweeping in Cape Charles has been postponed until further notice.
The town will reschedule the sweeping and send out a notice when it receives further information from VDOT.
The process is annoying and inconvenient, yet for communities on the Bay, it is very important. Street sweeping will pick up harmful substances that contaminate the environment. If these toxins are left on the streets, they will make their way into the storm drains and into our streams, creeks, and eventually the bay itself. Street sweeping has been defined as a best management practice by the EPA in preventing stormwater runoff.
WTH!? Toxins? I never heard of this. I knew that that debris had to picked up, for better drainage but never toxins.
And I never knew that street sweepers picked up toxics and that the street were filled with toxins that needed to be removed. What’s going on?
Something is amidst?
Street sweeping has been defined as a best management practice by the EPA in preventing stormwater runoff?
Sounds like an interesting proposition to me, anyway.
How exactly is it that street sweeping prevents stormwater runoff?
Must be based on some kind of science if the EPA says it, but it’s probably that kind of science that you need a Ph.D. and JD from Harvard to understand, which puts it outside the ken of an ordinary person like me.