Most years, cleaning up Homer's streets after a long winter and often dry and dusty breakup is enough of a challenge for the Elgin Pelican street sweeper.
This year the lone sweeper has its work cut out for it, as city crews continue to fight the volcanic ash that swirls up in the winds and finds its way into just about everything.
The street sweeper is a rebuilt model the city has owned for about 10 years. Until economic stimulus funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act came along, Public Works Director Carey Meyer figured he‘d probably have to buy a used one to replace the lumbering sweeper now in use.
A new one costs upward to $200,000, using a vacuum system that maintains better air quality than the old mechanical broom version, that can send back as many clouds of dust as it sweeps up.
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