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Fitchburg Ward 2&3 City Sponsored Cleanup

Saturday, April 29, 2023
8:00 am12:00 pm
Meet/Park at Daniels & Fairmount St. in front of the Restoration Recovery Center

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS PENDING THE CITY CONFIRMATION. WE WILL UPDATE THE EVENT ONCE CONFIRMED.

We will update this event once confirmed. Please email Keep Fitchburg Beautiful to be added to the email updates list.

Ward 2&3 City Sponsored Cleanup. Keep Fitchburg Beautiful Volunteers will be supporting the City during its officially sponsored Ward Cleanup days. All are welcome to join and help. Lite refreshments will be provided for breakfast and lunch at the meetup site. The Health Department will supply yellow trash bags, gloves, and masks at each event.

Salvation Army Canteen Truck on site – Light Breakfast & Lunch

Street Sweepers out – sweep sand onto the street for pickup – not in large piles.

TVs and Monitors are accepted for only a $10 fee!

TIRES WILL BE COLLECTED OFF-RIM from Central Mass Mosquito Control Project- FREE

SUGGESTED STREETS FOR CLEANUP: (alphabetical order)
-Allen Place (particularly around 50 Allen Place)
-Ashburnham St to Phillips St
-Cleghorn St - Trash and also weed overgrowth---could use a weed wacker and shovel
-Depot St bottom near bridge
-Fairmont St from Fire Station up to Reingold School
-Federal St
-Franklin Road between Causeway St (Memorial) to Beech St
-Franklin St at Rollstone St (Banking between Franklin and Kimball)
-Fulton St at Leighton St (empty lot filled with litter)
-Princeton Rd. going toward Rt. 2
-River St.
-Westminster St. toward Monty Tech.

Dumpsters will be available at each location for bulk items and non-residential trash found throughout the ward.

DPW staff will be available to aid in picking up large items that volunteers are unable to bring to the transfer sites, as well as curbside trash bags from large neighborhood clean-ups.

City personnel will be available at each transfer site to assist with the disposal.

DPW Street Sweepers will also be out in the wards during each ward cleanup. Please sweep sidewalk debris onto the street, however, kindly refrain from creating piles!

Please report back to us the streets you have cleaned... and even better... share a picture in our Facebook Group "Keep Fitchburg Beautiful"

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