Seattle Street Sweeping Routes for Water Quality Management

Seattle Department of Transportation street sweeping routes, maintained in collaboration with the Seattle Public Utility Water Quality Program. The dataset is updated weekly and is part of the city's GIS open data. Its feature class is identified as ROUTES_STREETSWEEPRO.

Use Cases

• Optimize street sweeping schedules based on the defined route network.
• Model runoff and water quality impacts based on sweeping route coverage.
• Plan municipal resource allocation for street maintenance teams.
• Integrate route data with other city GIS layers for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Data is updated on a weekly refresh cycle.
• Published in multiple geospatial and tabular formats, including GeoPackage, KML, and GeoJSON.
• Produced through a joint effort between two city departments (SDOT and SPU Water Quality).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

City of Seattle, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle Public Utility Water Quality Program.

Collection Method

Maintained by municipal operations; specific collection method is not detailed.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 03:37:58.868359; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Seattle, Washington, USA.