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Seattle Study Focuses on Water Quality
'Seattle Street Sweep' is a pilot project ongoing in 2006 - 2007 designed to evaluate best practices and new technology to improve the health of Seattle's waters. The link is to an interview with the study director that discusses the study design and other parameters.
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Toronto Assessment Project Moves Fleet From Mechanical to Regenerative Air
After compiling test data, City of Toronto staff conclude that a 92% combined surface and air removal efficiency could be achieved with the use of a regenerative-air street sweeper. This would translate into an estimated 35% improvement in PM10 content of ambient air citywide once they implement their 50 sweeper fleet away from the current mechanical broom and into regenerative-air street sweepers.
Go to PDF study criteria or to staff report.
Street Sweeping – State of the Practice
Minnesota's Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District has compiled one of the most comprehensive 'State of the Practice' documents on sweeping. This information was initially published in June of 2005.
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Residential Street-Dirt Accumulation
Rates and Chemical Composition, and
Removal Efficiencies by Mechanical- and
Vacuum-Type Sweepers, New Bedford,
Massachusetts,
Study Conducted 2003 — 2004
New Bedford study concludes that street-dirt-accumulation rates, street-dirt chemistry data, and street-sweeper efficiencies can be used to estimate the potential benefits gained by implementing a sweeping program.
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Center for Watershed Protection Evaluates Sweeping as a BMP for Chesapeake Bay Area
The Urban Storm Water Work Group of the Chesapeake Bay Program goal is defining more accurate pollutant removal rates for the practices of street cleaning and storm drain cleanouts as a top priority for its BMP tracking system.
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Evaluation of Street Sweeping as a Water-Quality
Management Tool in Residential Basins in Madison
The City of Madison, WI, is currently conducting a paired basins study to determine the effectiveness of street sweeping to determine if water-quality benefits are realized by the street-sweeping program, and to what extent. Testing should be completed by September of 2005. Sweepers used are provided by Elgin. The link is to the information now online at USGS. We'll have study results as they are available. Read the current info.
Potential Effects of Structural Controls and Street Sweeping on Stormwater Loads to the Lower Charles River, Massachusetts
This 50-page study released in 2002 was conducted by the US Geological Survey (USGS) and US Department of the Interior (USDI) and evaluated predicted effectiveness of street sweeping by various types of sweeping technology, when paired with other stormwater runoff pollution control measures, on reducing pollutants flowing into the Charles River. Note that pdf file size is about 7.6mb. See the study.
Source Area and Regional Storm Water Treatment Practices: Options for Achieving Phase II Retrofit Requirements in Wisconsin
This study takes place in the totally urbanized Lake Wingra watershed in Madison, Wisconsin. The goal is to find retrofit practices that are able to reduce the annual total suspended solids load by 40%. Model results indicate the parking lots and streets are the most important sources of total suspended solids. Street sweeping at varying frequencies is paired with other technologies, with the goal of reaching the 40% reduction.
Read the current info.
South Coast Air Quality Management District Sweeper Certification Testing
As of January 1, 2000, all sweepers purchased for regular municipal routes in four California counties - Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernadino - had to be 'Rule 1186 Certified' by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). Here's how that was accomplished. Read the story.
Study Quantifies Broom Sweeper Litter Pickup Ability
Litter Management Pilot Study addresses litter discharges from storm drain systems given differing sweeping schedules by mechanical broom sweepers. Read the story.
Litter Management Study: A Stormwater Perspective
Sweeper researcher, Roger Sutherland, comments on the above broom sweeper pickup study in terms of its value in reducing stormwater runoff pollution. Read the story.
Virginia Test Further Documents Pickup of High Efficiency Sweepers
Northern Virginia testing shows high efficiency sweeper will pick up more than 500 pounds per curb mile after either regenerative air or mechanical broom sweepers. Read the story.
Kurahashi Study: Street Sweeper Pick-up Performance
As part 1 of KAI's work for the Port of Seattle on the stormwater quality analysis of the Sea-Tac International Airport, they conducted an "All Known and Reasonable Technologies" (AKART) search into stormwater quality management practices and passive stormwater treatment devices. Read the story.
Research Studies at Office of Water Programs, California State University at Sacramento
This web page offers links to a number of water-quality and litter removal studies, although these do not involve the use of sweepers, they do provide a number of studies having to do with stormwater runoff. See the page.
To view other sweeper studies located on this site, be sure to also take a look at the Environmental Section of the WorldSweeper.com website.
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