Half of supply used this winter
By Bert Lehman
Over the past two months, the Clintonville Public Works Department has responded to 28 separate snow and ice events.
Snow totaled 66 inches, while ice accumulation amounted to half an inch.
The city also received 1.5 inches of rain during that time.
For those events, the city used approximately 190 tons of salt, 30 tons of sand salt and 19,000 gallons of salt brine. Brine material equates to about 6.5 tons of salt used.
Clintonville Public Works Manager Kray Brown stated in a report distributed to the Clintonville Streets Committee that the city is allotted 400 tons of salt for the winter season. This leaves roughly 200 tons of salt for the rest of the season.
At the Thursday, Feb. 28 Clintonville Streets Committee meeting, Chairman Jim Supanich asked Brown if the Public Works Department has been receiving shipments of salt as scheduled.
Brown said the city has receive its salt shipments without any problems.
“We’ve been doing really good with this,” Brown said. “The help of salt brine and doing some things with the salt brine has helped. I’d like to use it more, but we can’t do more than what the truck can output.”
Brown said he estimates more than 500 truckloads of snow have been hauled out of the city. Snow has been hauled to the Clintonville Area Waste Services site.