Three teams of city workers will be roaming the streets of Cape Girardeau to clean up weeds and pick up litter.
Operation Clean Sweep consists of three teams of 8 to 12 people who clean up the city streets.Citizen are also volunteering for the program, and public works director Tim Grambling said that is a huge help.
“We have an Adopt a Street program that citizens or even groups. We do have some University groups that have, in the past,decided to take on a particular say maybe a mile or two stretch of streets or maybe they've taken on a neighborhood where they want to pick up trash,” Grambling said.
Grambling said volunteers interested in helping may contact the Public Works Department. Grambling said Operation Clean Sweep will start on major streets such as Broadway, Lexington, Cape Rock, Mount Auburn, William Street and Sprigg but this list may expand or decrease.
“We’ve taken the city and divided it into 3 parts, North part, Central part, South part. We’re looking at just the major thoroughfares for each of those areas. We will have one team of employees of about eight to twelve people assigned to each of those areas then about once or twice a month they’ll go out and basically go from one end to another on the streets designated,” Grambling said.
Operation Clean Sweep has been done in cities like San Diego and Chicago. Grambling said it will begin soon and proceed into the winter.