When was the last time you say a gutter in Fairfax county swept of debris? Even D.C. is on the ball by comparison, running sweepers almost every week. Years can go by in Fairfax without a road being swept. The amount of gravel and silt on the roads an in the margins is staggering. VDOT should be handling most of this... is this area being shortchanged?

You are right, they (not quite sure who did this, but anyways...)used to come by after the last snow and sweep the gutter areas in neighborhood streets. It's been 2 years now, at least.

But since I don't rely on anyone but myself in the end, I took it upon myself to use my backpack leaf blower and blow the sand and silt out of the curbs and cleaned them myself. This was specifically for the area in front of my home, that's all.

Wish my neighbors took more initiative to spruce their own, but who knows. Maybe they are waiting too, for someone to come and clean it up for them.

I cannot recall ever seeing a street sweeper operating in Fairfax County, except in construction zones. It has always been my assumption that it was the responsibility of the homeowner to handle this.

how bout, you get your fat lazy ass off the couch, put down the bon-bons and go out and sweep your own curb.

Agree it's terrible. so bed it looks like storm drains would be blocked in some areas. For example, Burke Lake Road down by the Lake Braddock and the Giant is awful. It would be nice if some sweeping could occur in the worst areas but I imagine the cost would be astronomical considering the miles of roadways. I personally sweep in front of my house. Luckily I live on a road that slopes downhill so most of the dirt gets swept down to storm drain eventually by the rain. Obviously no one could sweep a main roadway so I guess it's better to look up at the spring trees rather than to the vestiges of fall and winter in the gutters.

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> I cannot recall ever seeing a street sweeper
> operating in Fairfax County, except in
> construction zones. It has always been my
> assumption that it was the responsibility of the
> homeowner to handle this.


Correct. Never saw one nor ever saw evidence of one.

The street cleaner is called homeowner with broom. Or if not a broke ass nog, homeowner with leaf blower.

> The street cleaner is called homeowner with broom.
> Or if not a broke ass nog, homeowner with leaf
> blower.


Chain gang....

Of course a single homeowner can sweep the road in front of his house, or those of his neighbors. The roads around my house are heavy with road debris- near and in the gutters. I tried sweeping it up. I requires stepping in to traffic with a pushbroom, pulling sand and stones into the gutter, and lifting it into a wheelbarrow or trash can with a coal shovel. I estimate about 50 pounds of crap every ten feet. If I could pick it all, up, what would I do with it? I'd be tempted to deliver it to 12000 Government Center Parkway.

The sand is from all the grit the county "over put" on the roads over the winter. The county needs to sweep it off now. I have been using a leaf blower in my neighborhood to try and get rid of it.

It is a hazard to motorcycles and the county is setting itself up for another lawsuit if they don't get rid of it.

Jay