Lincoln Town Office

63 Main Street

Lincoln ME 04457

Posted on April 25, 2008

Sweeper news!!

The Lincoln Public Works Department will begin our spring routine of sweeping the town streets and sidewalks. Sweeping during the month of April is dictated by the weather. When the temperature is at, or below freezing we cannot use the dust suppression system to control the dust so we cannot sweep in the interest of public health during cold weather. The town only owns one sweeper and that unit currently tries to cover 70+ lane miles so please be patient. Currently on some of our residential streets we are sweeping just the travel lanes for now to help reduce the dust caused by every day traffic, don’t worry we will return to sweep the sides of the road at a later time. This process will allow us to cover more streets earlier after which we will go back over each street to finish sweeping.

Some of the residents might have already seen the sweeper going by their house and was wondering why we didn’t sweep in front of their house. It is our policy to start at the highest point and sweep down hill, by doing this it helps to eliminate sand from washing down the hill onto an area that has already been swept.

We try to cover each street at least once by the end of May. If you believe the street sweeper has not visited your at least once by the end of May call the Public Works Department at 794-6658. If residents would like to have the sand that is swept from their street, please contact the Town Office and ask for a fill request form. Once the Code Enforcement Officer reviews the fill request we could then drop a load off when we are sweeping in the area.

Street Sweeping Schedule

The week of April 28^th - May 2^nd The sweeper will be in the Mountain view Drive through the Taylor Street area.

The week of May 5^th – May 9^th The sweeper will be working in the Lake Street to Warsaw Circle area.

The week of May 12^th – May 16^th We will be sweeping in the area of Evergreen Drive through Clay Street.

The week of May 19^th – May 23^rd The sweeper will be in the Perryville area.

The week of May 26^th – May 30^th The street sweeper will be operating on some of the more rural roads throughout the Town.

This schedule may change do to mechanical breakdowns and or the amount of material on the road surface that needs to be swept up.

We do keep track of what streets have been swept but sometimes we may inadvertently miss an area. So please contact the Public Works Department at 794-6658 if you have not seen the sweeper in your area of town by end of the scheduled week.