At their most recent meeting, Thompson City Council passed a resolution that would allow the City to purchase another street sweeper.

With this addition, the City will have three sweepers cleaning the streets of Thompson throughout the summer months.

Director of Public Works Wayne Koversky talks about the benefits of adding another machine into the rotation.

“Basically, what it does is assist us in the actual aspect of doing the streets. Now we’ll always have two units that can continuously be out there, versus having one filling up a dump truck, moving forward, and then waiting for that dump truck to come back. We can actually have two sweepers out there proactive, picking up that material and loading it into that same truck. Basically it just speeds up the process.”

The sweeper was initially provided as a rental from Winnipeg before the purchase was approved.