The City of Sonoma’s Public Works Department asks that residents help reduce surface flooding threatened by winter rains by not raking leaves into the street for the street sweeper to pick up. Please place leaves in your yard debris container. Leaves that are raked into the street add to clogged storm drains, which in turn may cause localized flooding. The street sweeper is not intended to sweep up large piles of leaves, but to pick up leaves that are blown from trees and fall onto City streets. Please help the City extend the life of its equipment and minimize flooding.
Help reduce clogged storm drains
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The city has two street sweepers. There isn’t enough money in the budget to hire another person to operate the second machine. Most of the streets now have leaves on them. The city is not putting sufficient effort into getting the leaves and debris off the streets. Perhaps the needed money was used on something more important…perhaps not.