• Pre salt for any precipitation that falls and temperatures that are close to freezing

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• Follow forecast to determine when to began plowing. Depending on the severity of the storm, salting during the event may be needed.

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• Salting at the end of an event is ALWAYS needed and sometimes more then once.

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• Plowing snow starts once 2 inches has accumulated.

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• Snow drifts from rooftops making parking lots a sheet of ice AFTER plowing services occur, resulting in an additional plowing or application of salting .

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• DPWs work at their own pace and sometimes plow entrances back in. We may have to return to clear this.

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• We plow all night without stoping. Having crews ready at different shifts to keep fatigue from setting in. 

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• Machine maintenance is the biggest thing as without them we don't have much.​

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• We stay on top of our lots. Liabilities are to easy when dealing with ice. Preventing the ice from forming is the best angle of approach we have. 

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