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Winter Maintenance

Winter Maintenance. 2008- 2009 Winter Season Thomas Wilson DPW Director Derrick Schueller Assist. DPW Director AFSCME Local 1917, Council 25 Teamsters Local 214. Objectives Set Forth for this training

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Winter Maintenance

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  1. Winter Maintenance 2008- 2009 Winter Season Thomas Wilson DPW Director Derrick Schueller Assist. DPW Director AFSCME Local 1917, Council 25 Teamsters Local 214

  2. Objectives Set Forth for this training Reduce cost for ice and snow control without affecting service and response time for ice and snow removal 1

  3. Next steps Evaluate your current program and equipment. Questions to ask yourself Does your department have any new equipment ? Who do we need to train ? What type of training do we need ? Is our department just responsible for roads or do we take care of city parking lots ?

  4. Develop a training program that fits the your community and it’s needs.

  5. Have employees prepare all the various types of equipment for the upcoming winter season.

  6. Train personal in the proper use of the current equipment available to your city .

  7. So lets talk about the nuts and bolts of snow removal • So how does salt work? • What type of surface are we treating with salt and does this make a difference? • When do we start to salt? • At what rate do we apply salt? • What is the outside temperature?

  8. So how much salt? • Lets just say it is 25 degrees outside • We had a snow fall of 1 inch • What do you think is the right amount of salt?

  9. Most of us Let’s see I would look out the rear view mirror and see the salt shooting into the left lane. Listen as I went by the parked car’s for that familiar sound of salt pinging off the park car’s And say to myself perfect!!!

  10. 0r • Would I look down at my ground speed and than at the spread sheet on the dash board and say that 500 pounds of salt per lane mile should take care of the snow and make the road safe to travel.

  11. What do you mean spread sheet! That’s not in my truck and besides that’s how we always did it. More is always better!

  12. Well it is 2009 • So let’s talk about this spread sheet thing. How do I start?

  13. Calibrating your salt spreader!

  14. Equipment needed: • 1. Scale for weighing. • 2. Canvas or bucket/collection device. • 3. Chalk, crayon or other marker. • 4. Watch with second hand.

  15. Where do we place the salt? • just turn the spreader up until you can see the salt out the mirrors? • just through a wind row out the back about 4 feet wide? • make sure the salt is spread evenly from center line to curb?

  16. What is Anti-icing? The FHWA Manual of Practice for an Effective Anti-Icing Program says… The snow and ice-control practice of preventing the formation or development of bonded snow and ice to the road surface by timely applications of a chemical freezing-point depressant.

  17. What is Anti-icing? “It means applying some chemical to the road, before a storm, to keep snow or ice from freezing on it”

  18. It is estimated to take 10 times the chemical to remove ice from the surface once it has bonded than it does to prevent the bond from happening That’s Huge!

  19. Why Wouldn't We Anti- Ice? • It’s too expensive • We don’t do it that way • We tried it and it doesn’t work here • Liquids make the road slippery

  20. How did we keep the cost down in Romulus • In the winter season of 2004/2005 the city purchased its first epoke. • At first we were buying salt brine from a outside supplier. 2005/2007 winter season. • In the summer of 2007 we started to talk with other communities surrounding the City of Romulus to see if there was a interest in purchasing a salt brine maker.

  21. The City of Wayne was interested! • The city of Wayne agreed to bid out a salt brine machine and incur the cost of the bid process. • The City of Romulus agreed to draft the intergovernmental agreement.

  22. IN OCTOBER OF 2007 THE CITY COUNCILS OF BOTH ROMULUS AND WAYNE PASSED THE JOINT PURCHASE AND THE INTERGOVERMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR A SALT BRIME MACHINE

  23. So What Did We Save • Well the initial cost of the salt Brine machine. $25,000 • First year saving on salt. $40,000 • Reduced overtime cost. ?

  24. So What do we do next • Report your progress to your Mayor/City Mangers and City Councils or boards. This should be done at the end of the snow season. • With the savings from salt, the City of Romulus has purchased a second epoke to further reduce salt cost.

  25. Questions ?

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