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brine along selected routes and a person on 12-hour shifts. Fleet Maintenance had most neighborhood roads clear by
mixing the brine at our lot. They also supervisors also attended our pre-storm early afternoon on the 17th.
mix a concentrated calcium chloride into planning meeting to discuss vehicle
the salt brine. The schedules allow us to issues, plan of attack and staffing issues. This event was a little unusual in that
run two 12-hour shifts to work around They went to their emergency 12-hour there wasn’t a lot of accumulation (1 to 3
the clock. These crews continued their schedules also. inches with most areas about 1 inch), but
pre-treatment until about 3:30 p.m. on the rapidly dropping temperatures, which
January 16. At about 3:30 p.m. on the afternoon was causing the melt from the snow,
of the 16th we started our emergency caused us to use the salt to prevent icing.
We had our pre-storm planning response with all crews. They started
meeting at 9 a.m. on the 16th to set pre-treating selected areas in their routes Crews put down around 750 tons of
up our schedules and to see what with hard salt. Our goal at this time was salt and over 68,000 gallons of liquid
vehicles and personnel were available. to try and prevent the precipitation from brine. We expended 1,362 labor hours
At that time we also gave the crews our freezing to the roadways. Precipitation also.
preliminary plan of attack. We had one started at around 5 p.m. and continued
crew work a 16-hour shift that day, while until approximately 1 a.m. on the Snow removal in Kingsport is a true
the other crew went home at regular 17th. Crews continued working their team effort. Members of the Streets
time and came back that night at 11 routes throughout the night and into the and Sanitation Division, Storm Sewer
p.m. From that point on until the end next morning. Most main roads were Division, Water and Sewer Maintenance,
of the storm response, the crews were clear on the morning of the 17th. Crews Transportation and Fleet all work
together to achieve the goal of clean and
safe streets.
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