So Roads Don’t Get Slippery: Fallen Leaves Are Being Cleared in Mykolaiv

In Mykolaiv, municipal workers cleared fallen leaves from several streets and cleaned storm drain grates over the course of a day. The aim was to make traffic safer and drain rainwater from the roads. The list of areas covered was published by the Mykolaiv City Council on November 13.

The cleanup is being carried out by employees of ELU Avtodorihy Municipal Enterprise. They are clearing roads and shoulders, focusing primarily on the areas along the curbs, where the most leaves accumulate.

This is about more than keeping the streets tidy. When leaves get wet, road surfaces become slippery, and vehicles may need a longer distance to stop.

Over the course of the day, leaves were cleared from the following areas:

• Marko Kropyvnytskoho Street — from 1st Viiskova Street toward Sadova Street;
• Vadym Blahovisnyi Street — from Mariupolska Street toward Arkasivska Street;
• Pavlo Skoropadskyi Street — from Arkasivska Street to Artyleriiska Street;
• Mariupolska Street — from Admiralska Street toward Central Avenue;
• Kovalska Street.

Cleaning storm drain grates is another area of work. They are cleared of debris so rainwater can drain away rather than pooling on the road. This work has already been carried out on:

• Velyka Morska Street;
• Odeska Street;
• Veselynivska Street;
• Bohoyavlenskyi Avenue.

We previously reported:

• To prevent roads from flooding: storm drain grates cleaned in the rain in Mykolaiv
• To keep the storm drainage system working: leaves cleared from Mykolaiv’s roads
• Pipes breached again: sewage dumped into Mykolaiv’s storm drains
• Mykolaiv clears its collectors ahead of the rains: one was 90% blocked
• When “autumn is to blame”: Parks Municipal Enterprise asks for 45 million as leaves are falling “all too actively”