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Local street sweeping starts this week in Arlington

Street sweeping truck (via Arlington County)

Spring cleaning isn’t just for the indoors here in Arlington.

The county started its annual spring street sweeping today in several neighborhoods. Street sweeping occurs four times throughout the year, twice in the spring and twice in the fall.

Starting this week, county-operated trucks will sweep around Arlington neighborhoods, “removing accumulated debris and pollutants such as sand, salt, metals, petroleum products and bacteria before they wash into streams, the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay,” per a press release.

The vacuum trucks started sweeping today (Monday) and will finish the early spring season on April 4. Street sweeping hours are scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“Be sure to move your car to a driveway, garage or non-sweeping street on your civic association’s scheduled street sweeping day,” the county advised.

The full schedule is below.

  • Monday, March 18
    Zone 1: Clarendon-Courthouse, North Highlands, Colonial Village, North Rosslyn, Lyon Village, Radnor-Fort Myer Heights
  • Tuesday, March 19
    Zone 2: Arlington Mill, Douglas Park, Barcroft, Forest Glen, Buckingham
  • Wednesday, March 20
    Zone 3: Claremont, Fairlington, Columbia Forest, Green Valley
  • Thursday, March 21
    Zone 4: Donaldson Run, Old Dominion, Dover Crystal, Riverwood
  • Friday, March 22
    Zone 5: Arlingwood, Old Glebe, Bellevue Forest, Rivercrest. Country Club Hills/Gulf Branch
  • Monday, March 25
    Zone 6: Arlington Forest, Glencarlyn, Boulevard Manor, Madison Manor
  • Tuesday, March 26
    Zone 7: Arlington Ridge/Forest Hills, Longbranch Creek, Aurora Highlands
  • Wednesday, March 27
    Zone 8: East Falls Church, Williamsburg
  • Thursday, March 28
    Zone 9: Cherrydale, Waverly Hills, Cherrydale Nature Center, Woodmont, Maywood
  • Friday, March 29
    Zone 10: Glebewood, Leeway Overlee, Highland Park/Overlee Knolls, Westover Village, Langston-Brown
  • Monday, April 1
    Zone 11: Ashton Heights, Lyon Park. Ballston-Virginia Square, Waycroft Woodlawn
  • Tuesday, April 2
    Zone 12: Alcova Heights, Columbia Heights, Arlington Heights, Foxcroft Heights, Arlington View, Penrose
  • Wednesday, April 3
    Zone 13: Bluemont, Tara Leeway Heights, Dominion Hills
  • Thursday, April 4
    Zone 14: Chainbridge Forest, Stafford-Albemarle-Glebe, Rock Spring, Yorktown