Director of public works Tim Hanson
said "this is ridiculous. adding that he thought he'd seen it all--but this
winters unusually mild weather takes the cake--just not the salt
Hanson said
".the first few years that I've been here we've used about 25,000 tons in
a particular season, this year its 3,000 tons and we've still got a month to go..."
Which means the
city has a massive surplus that they trying to figure out what to do with. the
city is currently sitting on 11,000 tons of salt, in order to fulfill their
contract with the state, they still have to purchase an additional 9,000 tons. That
the weight equivalent of 818 school buses!
All this translates into an awful lot of salt
for a winter shaping up to be one of the mildest in recent memory and Hanson
agrees, he told us ".last year i thought was a really light year and we
still ended up having 25 inches of snow--this year we're still under four
inches .."
But if you're
thinking all that excess means a waste of the city's money, think again,
they're actually well under budget for the year.
