DCR Street Sweeping Program

The Department of Conservation and Recreation is starting its second annual program of monthly street-sweeping along selected roadways in the Boston area to clean those roadways and improve the quality of stormwater runoff. On the designated sweeping day each month, beginning April 1 through November, parking will be prohibited for certain times along marked DCR streets or parkways. DCR crews have installed “no parking” signs at the specific 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. DCR is targeting the sweeping program to roadways where stormwater runoff flows into those impaired waters, which include the Mystic, Charles, Neponset, and Muddy rivers and Boston Harbor, among others.

The monthly sweeping program will begin April 1st and is expected to continue annually.

The following is a list of DCR roadways that will be included in this monthly street sweeping program. Click on roadway to view map in a new window.

(Revised March 31, 2008)

List of All DCR Parkways and

Roadways in the Metro Boston Area

Maintenance Schedules

Stormwater Management

Winter Storm Plan

Parking Violations