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“Fortunately, bur driver was not injured and the equipment not damaged to the extent that it cannot be repaired in time for the next storm,” she says.
The district maintenance engineer is confident that district crews are ready and supplies adequate for the remaining winter months.
“It may have been nip and tuck had we not had the break in the weather, but we did we are taking advantage of it,” Ms. Lipscomb says.
Preliminary data shows ice and snow-removal costs so far this season at more than $1.5 million.
District crews have already used more abrasives this year than all of last year, and have used approximately 10,000 tons of salt, Ms. Lipscomb explains.
She says salt use is just 5,000 tons below what was used during the entire 1992-93 winter season, including the March 12,1993, blizzard.
“Our preliminary costs indicate we have spent about twice the amount this year than we did for the same period last winter,” Ms. Lipscomb continues. Last year about $3.1 million was spent in fighting winter storms.
“No matter what effort is required, VDOT will continue to keep winter-storm ravaged roads as clear as weather conditions will permit*
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