The city is trying to get residents to take responsibility for their neighborhood’s storm drains. The city’s Department of Facility Maintenance recently expanded its Unclutter Street Gutters ...

In most cities, streets are designed for collecting and transporting dirt, litter, debris, storm water and other wastes as a municipal sanitation system. Microbial mats can develop on street surfaces ...

Because street sweepers routinely sweep pavement of different ages, conditions and design, more and more units are being ordered with a tilt-adjuster option on the gutter brooms, and most ...

For 12 days in June 2015, something rather unusual took place in Paris. Under clear skies, a team of scientists armed with toothbrushes, methodically passed through each of the city’s 20 districts ...