Snow Removal and Ice Control

Sanding is required when we get ½ to 1 inch of snow or freezing rain.  We use about 800 ton of salt and sand each year.

It takes 8 of our employees 8 to 12 hours to plow snow throughout the City depending on the storm.  Staff uses 4 plow trucks, 2 loaders, a motor grader and a bobcat to remove snow form streets, alleys and parking lots.  The motor grader windrows the snow to the center of the streets in the downtown, by churches and the middle school and where sidewalks are directly behind the curb.  Removing and hauling snow in windrows is done at night.  This process takes from 4 to 8 hours and requires 4 city trucks, 5 to 8 hired trucks, 2 loaders (one with the blower), the motor grader and the bobcat.

During snow plowing, the snow in the parking lots and 28 cul-de-sacs is placed in piles.  After plowing, staff spends 3 days hauling these piles away.