Kelowna adds new sweeper to fleet

The City of Kelowna has a new streetsweeping tool for getting into those hard-toreach places. It’s a Multihog CV 350, a dedicated sweeper for sidewalks and multi-use corridors in Kelowna to bolster the city’s existing sweeping fleet of three mechanical road sweepers, said Andrew Schwerdtfeger, the city’s roadways operations manager.

“Our larger road sweepers can’t get into an area narrower than two metres. This has presented some challenges for servicing sidewalks and bike paths that were only 1.5 metres wide in previous years.

The new CV is only 1.4-metre wide and can easily get into the narrower corridors.”

Kelowna has more than 444 kilometres of sidewalks, 304 kilometres of bike lanes, 10 kilometres of cycle tracks and 58 kilometres of shared-use pathways.

“The new [street-sweeper] will be tasked with sweeping some of this inventory as well as some municipal parking lots and park pathways,” he said.

The machine cost $225,000 while a new road sweeper is running upwards of $500,000.

It will also double as a plow unit in the winter and will also be used as a scrubbing unit for pressure-washing sidewalks downtown and higher-use areas.