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APPROACHING winter is being watched with a wary eye by maintenance men with the Virginia Department of Highways, who are busily stockpiling chemicals, sand and other an brasives, testing massive snow removal equipment and enlisting standby personnel to keep Virginia’s roads and highways clear of snow, ice and slush during the coming cold months.
C. 0. Leigh, new state maintenance engineer with the Highway Department, said that all of the state’s eight highway districts are being furnished with their annual supplies of salt, calcium chlorides, sand and other abrasives to be placed at stratetic spots.
Leigh said it cost the Highway Department a total of $5,959,315 to clear Virginia’s roads of ice and snow during the 1971-72 winter. This compared to the $8,387,353 spent the year before. He said the 1971-72 figure was the lowest since the winter of 196566.
92.6%