The City of St. Catharines performs street cleaning three times per year, on a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood, basis to collect leaves and clean debris from City streets.
2024 Fall Street Cleaning will begin soon.
Please avoid parking vehicles on the street when your sector is being cleaned. You can consult our street cleaning map below to identify which sector you live in. Consult the map's pop-out menu on the left for a full list of sectors.
When street sweeping is underway updates on sectors being cleaned will be posted to this page, via our traffic notices feed, and on X.
Street cleaning schedules and times
Our street cleaning staff operate from Mondays to Saturdays between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Cleaning takes place:
- Once in the spring, shortly after winter and before May 31 (includes all City streets)
- Twice in the summer, generally in July and September (includes all curbed City streets)
- Once in the fall, generally around mid-November after the leaves have fallen (includes all City streets)
Subscribe to this page for updates and follow our street cleaning activity on Twitter, where we share information such as neighbourhoods being worked on, road conditions, construction events, closures and other activity.
Rules and guidelines for residents
As per City by-laws, you must not place any debris, including leaves, on a public roadway. You should always collect leaves from your property and boulevard, and bag them for pickup by Niagara Region's leaf and yard waste collection services. We encourage you to regularly remove leaves and debris from ditches to avoid sewer culvert blockages and possible flooding. Contact us if a culvert near you has become blocked with debris.
Avoid parking vehicles on the street when cleaners are scheduled to be in your neighbourhood. When placing recycling and garbage curbside for collection, containers and bags should be placed on the boulevard, not on the road.
With clear roadways, our staff can perform thorough cleaning, curb to curb.