For immediate
release Contact: Wendy Fox
March 16, 2007 617-626-1453
DCR to Initiate New Monthly Residential Street -Sweeping Program
April 3 – November 30
The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is implementing an intensive new program of monthly street-sweeping along selected roadways in the Boston area. In addition to cleaning these roadways, the program is designed to improve the quality of stormwater runoff. On the designated sweeping day each month from April through November, parking will be prohibited for certain times along marked DCR streets or parkways. DCR crews are now installing “no parking” signs at these locations, detailing the day and hours that parking will be prohibited. State Police will enforce the parking restrictions, and cars in violation will be towed.
Under the federal Clean Water Act, certain ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers in the Commonwealth have been identified as “impaired,” or polluted. With the street-sweeping program, DCR is targeting its roadways where stormwater flows into those impaired waters, which include the Mystic, Charles, Neponset, and Muddy Rivers and Boston Harbor, among others.
“We’re trying to take care of the most polluted areas first,” said Rob Lowell, DCR’s stormwater manager.
The monthly sweeping program will begin April 3 and continue through November 30, and is expected to continue annually.
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The following is a list of DCR roadways that will be
included in this
monthly street
sweeping program.
|
Scheduled
day of month |
Community |
No Parking Hours |
|
1st
Tuesday |
|
|
|
Morton
Street (Out Bound, OB) |
Dorchester |
8AM-12PM |
|
Gallivan
Boulevard (OB) |
Dorchester |
8AM-12PM |
|
|
|
|
|
1st
Wednesday |
|
|
|
Morton
Street (In Bound, IB) |
Dorchester |
8AM-12PM |
|
Gallivan
Boulevard (IB) |
Dorchester |
8AM-12PM |
|
|
|
|
|
1st
Thursday |
|
|
|
Columbia
Road (OB) |
South Boston |
8AM
– 12PM |
|
Day
Boulevard 1 (to Castle Island) |
South Boston |
12-3PM |
|
Day
Boulevard 2 (to Castle Island) |
South Boston |
8AM-12PM |
|
Old
Colony Avenue (OB) |
South Boston |
8AM-12PM |
|
|
|
|
|
1st
Friday |
|
|
|
Day
Boulevard (to Columbia Road) |
South Boston |
8AM-12PM |
|
Old
Colony Avenue (IB) |
South Boston |
8AM-12PM |
|
Columbia
Road (IB) |
South Boston |
8AM-12PM |
|
|
|
|
|
2nd
Tuesday |
|
|
|
Blue
Hills Parkway |
Milton |
8AM-12PM |
|
Brush
Hill Parkway ( OB) |
Milton |
12-3PM |
|
Truman
Highway (IB & OB) |
Milton |
12-3PM |
|
|
|
|
|
2nd
Wednesday |
|
|
|
Arborway
Inner |
Jamaica Plain |
8AM-12PM |
|
Scheduled
day of month |
Municipality |
No Parking Hours |
|
2nd
Thursday |
|
|
|
Jamaicaway |
Jamaica Plain |
8AM-12PM |
|
Perkins
Street |
Jamaica Plain |
8AM-12PM |
|
Riverway |
Boston- Fenway |
12
– 3PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2nd
Friday |
|
|
|
Fenway |
Boston – Fenway |
8AM-12PM |
|
Forsyth
Way |
Fenway |
8AM – 12PM |
|
|
|
|
|
3rd
Tuesday |
|
|
|
Park
Drive |
Boston - Fenway |
8AM-12PM |
|
Boylston
Street |
Boston |
8AM –12PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3rd
Wednesday |
|
|
|
Cambridge
Parkway |
Cambridge |
8AM
–12PM |
|
Memorial
Drive |
Cambridge |
8AM
–12PM |
|
Hawthorne
Street |
Cambridge |
12-3PM |
|
|
|
|
|
3rd
Thursday |
|
|
|
Winthrop
Shore Drive |
Winthrop |
8AM-12PM |
|
Broadsound
Avenue |
Winthrop |
12-3PM |
|
Winthrop
Parkway |
Winthrop |
12-3PM |
|
|
|
|
|
3rd Friday |
|
|
|
Chestnut
Hill Driveway |
Brookline |
8AM
– 12PM |