[Summit] snow plowing

[Bresler E]

my 2¢ again
1) Salt water run-off is very hard on the sewer waste processing systems.
Some places have street run-off water plumbed into separate processing but I
seem to remember that we in Providence don't.  Maybe that's a reason they
held the salt down?
 Also in certain temperature ranges salt can be counter productive.  If is
melts the beginning of a storm, and then the temperatures go way down and it
is still snowing, then the melt will re-freeze under the snow and that is
the MOST slippery.

But salt now, that it is warming, would be VERY useful

2) I see the point about plowing to the curb for passage in small streets,
parking, etc. BUT personally I am of mixed feelings. They don't usually
clear that snow- it just goes up on the sidewalk (Or into the driveway we
just shoveled). We live on a corner of Hope, which is a wide street with
narrow sidewalks.  The plowing often making keeping even a narrow walkway
clear -quite a challenge. And they also drag big loads of that heavy,
sloppy, street snow- around the corner and plow that stuff into our drive
way.

Not our worst problem in life, but pretty tedious and time consuming to have
to keep reshoveling what you've already done!

Elianna

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Denise Guad <dguad27 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is an interesting aside.  My husband and I went to a holiday party
> last night in Seekonk.  Most of the roads on the East Side (Hope, Waterman,
> Butler, Blackstone Blvd) as well as the main streets in East Prov (Broadway,
> Rt 44) were "plowed" and passable if driving slowly, but still covered with
> about an inch of packed snow.  However, there seemed to be a "magical"
> place, called the Mass state line, where the roads became CLEAR.  You could
> see the black top!  And it wasn't just the main roads, it was the side
> streets as well.  Did RI forget to pay their sand and salt bill?
>
> Denise
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Art Norwalk <art at norwalkcom.com> wrote:
>
>> Amen to that. Fourth St is narrowed by about three feet on each side which
>> is SOP the last several years.
>>
>> At 11:25 PM 12/20/2008, John Bazik wrote:
>>
>>> My big beef is curb-to-curb plowing.  It's great to even see a plow
>>> on a local street during a storm, but when it's long over and we're
>>> returning to our routines, streets need to be plowed widely enough to
>>> accommodate traffic AND parked cars.  I have rarely seen curb-to-curb
>>> plowing in the City of Providence.  People will park anyway, of course,
>>> making our already narrow streets a hazard.
>>>
>>
>> -- Art Norwalk
>>
>>
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