Whether its city sanitation or building sanitation, cleaning methods are not only limited to main streets or to inside of building locations. It also covers open-air areas such parking lots. Like streets, parking areas also accumulate dirt and debris; although the amount varies according to the frequency of use and location. Mall and restaurant parking areas will tend to be dirtier compared to residential parking areas.
But no matter where a parking area is located, a frequent cleaning method such as parking lot flushing and brushing is needed. Parking areas connected to government owned offices and public recreational areas are the responsibility of the city or municipality while those located near private office and subdivisions are the responsibility of the office and community.
Parking Lot Flushing-Beneficial to Community Health and Environment
Parking lot flushing and or cleaning has several benefits offered to the environment, community health and to the city or municipality sanitation sector. Listed here are a few of these benefits.
1. Parking lot flushing and sweeping results to clean and safe areas for parking vehicles. When shopping or dining out in the Greater Toronto Area, having a clean area to park costly vehicles on is important to any homeowner. Incidentally, a clean parking also means a safe place for motorists to walk on. Litter and other debris can cause accidents such as getting cuts, bruises or bone fractures during accidental slips or even punctured car tires.
2. For business establishment owners in Ontario, parking lot flushing will give them the benefit of a good reputation. Cleanliness or the aesthetic value of the company building and its surrounding is very important to both customers and employees. Customers will feel they are important to companies when the facilities, such as parking areas, they use are being cleaned. Employees on the other hand, will benefit from a good working environment condition.
3. Most importantly, parking lot flushing reduces the particulate matter content of ambient air. In GTA, it has been monitored that road dust (composed of construction dust, fuel combustion wastes and fuel or oil spills) comprises a large percentage of air pollutants. So when roads and parking areas are cleaned, the community benefits from cleaner air.
4. Parking lot flushing helps brusher trucks effectively clean the pavement. Sometimes, debris and dirt can be very hard to remove especially during the initial spring time cleaning. Fortunately, this problem can be solved by washing or spraying the debris with water. This way, debris will soften and loosen.
5. This method of cleaning also results to conservation of natural resources. When it rains, water runoff accumulates in catch basins or sewers before they eventually get dumped into bodies of water. However, when debris or litter is present on parking areas, water is not the only thing that ends up in sewers; debris and litter as well. Eventually, bodies of water will get polluted by accumulated debris.
In addition, frequent parking lot flushing and brushing will help the city or municipality lower sewer maintenance costs. Most cities in Ontario spend money on cleaning or filtering catch basins and sewers to minimize pollution in receiving bodies of water.
Like city streets, parking areas also deserve the same frequency of cleaning. An effective cleaning method such as parking lot flushing and brushing will result to a safe and clean parking lot as well as a safer community to live in.
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