With the arrival of milder weather, the City of Mississauga’s annual spring maintenance and cleanup work has begun. This season, work will be taking place on the City’s roads, sidewalks, trails and parks, weather permitting.
Roads and sidewalks
* Repairing potholes and asphalt on City roads, including residential streets and bike lanes.
* Inspecting and repairing sidewalks.
* Repairing sod damage caused by snow-clearing operations.
* Cleaning up litter on roadways, catch basins and drains.
* Sweeping streets and flushing hard surfaces. This includes curb-face sidewalks, traffic islands, hard-surfaced boulevards, roads, curbside gutters and on-street bike lanes.
* Removing illegal signs.
Parks, trees and trails
* Cleaning up litter.
* Preparing plant beds for planting.
* Cleaning up trails, turf areas and maintaining natural areas.
* Preparing and maintaining sports fields for the upcoming season.
* Cutting grass and cleaning up plant beds along certain City boulevards.
* Mulching leaves.
* Planting trees in parks and on boulevards.
* Proactively inspecting trees in parks and on boulevards for any health or safety concerns that need to be addressed.
* Trimming and pruning trees, hedges and bushes away from roadways and sidewalks.
* Maintaining recently planted trees. This includes burlap removal, minor pruning, replacing tree stakes and reforming mulch rings.
You can support the City’s spring maintenance activities by calling 311 or submitting an online service request to report potholes, illegal signs, damaged or debris-covered catch basins. You can also report damaged sidewalks, curbs and sod, litter or dumping, damaged trees, dead or unhealthy trees and those in need of pruning. For more information about the City’s street and road maintenance, visit mississauga.ca/roads.
For more information about the City’s tree maintenance, visit mississauga.ca/trees.
To learn more about the City’s parks visit mississauga.ca/parks.
