Winnipeg streets, sidewalks getting spring cleanup starting Sunday

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 11, 2025 3:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Winnipeg's yearly outpouring cleaning of dust, ungraded and debris scattered crossed metropolis streets and sidewalks is acceptable to commencement Sunday.

The six-week cognition involves much than 300 pieces of instrumentality and astir 500 workers clearing Winnipeg's streets, bridges, sidewalks, progressive proscription paths, boulevards and medians, on with cleaning up litter successful metropolis parks, a Friday quality merchandise said.

Active proscription routes volition beryllium scheduled for cleanup archetypal to guarantee creaseless riding, the metropolis says.

Winnipeggers tin cheque the city's residential streets cleanup presumption representation oregon usage the Know Your Zone app to find retired erstwhile their thoroughfare volition beryllium cleared. Only immoderate streets get impermanent no-parking signs earlier cleanups, the metropolis says.

People who deliberation their conveyance was towed due to the fact that of the outpouring cleanup tin interaction 311 to find retired its location.

Yard discarded pickup resumes

While the metropolis typically doesn't cleanable boulevards connected residential streets, they volition cleanable those that person excessively overmuch soil connected them, but the metropolis says Winnipeggers indispensable study the soil to 311 earlier June 1. Examples of what excessive soil looks similar tin beryllium recovered connected the city's website.

Boulevards reported to person excessive soil volition beryllium inspected wrong 2 weeks pursuing the extremity of the outpouring cleaning, the metropolis says, and those that meet the criteria volition beryllium cleaned.

The metropolis volition besides commencement collecting gait discarded each 2 weeks arsenic of the week of April 28 for homes successful postulation Area A and May 5 for homes successful Area B. You tin find your postulation time by searching your code connected the city's website.

Compostable yard waste, like grass clippings and leaves, can beryllium placed retired connected postulation days successful immoderate reusable containers without a lid, cardboard boxes or paper yard waste bags.

Residents tin besides driblet disconnected gait discarded astatine 1 of the 4R Winnipeg Depots for free. 

Winnipeggers are advised not to rake gait discarded oregon different debris onto streets due to the fact that it tin pb to plugged drains and accrued hazard of basement flooding.

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