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Snow Removal Costs
State Over 6 Million
Snow removal operations have cost the State Highway Department a record $6,777,149 this winter. The sum greatly exceeds the $4,152,000 snow cost for the winter of 1964-65, and is by far the largest amount ever spent by the Department for this purpose in a single winter Chiefly responsible, of course, was the “Blizzard of '66," which occurred late in January and was one of Virginia's most severe Statewide snows in memory. Two storms within a fourday period left accumulations of more than 30 Inches in some localities, and winds whipped up drifts of more than 15 feet in height. At one point during that emergency, the cost of opening and clearing Virginia’s highways was running about $500,000 a day. With the snow season not yet completely over -- but with the Department looking fondly at the spring flowers beginning to bloom — the agency provided this breakdown of costs in each of its eight construction districts: Culpeper (including the hard hit Northern Virginia area) $1,222*816; Bristol, $1,077,308 Staunton, $1,002,742; Salem, $988,008; Richmond, $775, 570 Lynchburg, $692,754; Fredericksburg, $556,142, and Suf folk, $461,809. The total Includes the cost of wages and overtime pay for Department employes, along witn the expense of supplies and equipment operations, and the cost of paying private contractors who provided equipment and manpower to assist the Department’s own forces. The $6,777,149 total includes $935,000 paid to the contrac- ■ tors, whose assistance has been highly praised by High
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