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How do US cities get rid of snow?
BBC News ^ | 9 February 2015

Posted on 02/09/2015 6:27:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The snowploughs are out in force in Boston, where 1.5m (61ins) has fallen in a month, but Mayor Martin Walsh says the city is running out of space in which to dump it. How do other snowy cities get rid of it?

The most common solution is dumping it where it can melt away. Last week, Chicago endured 48cm (19ins) of snow. As it piled up along roads, some of it was hauled away to 500 sites around the city - car parks and other empty spaces.

In Minneapolis, they haul snow into one large empty publicly owned space, according to Mike Kennedy of Minneapolis Public Works. But taking snow away with trucks is expensive and slow, he says. In nearby St Paul in 2011, city workers hauled and stacked so much snow into one empty spot it became known as "Mount Midway", which didn't melt until May.

Boston has similar sites they call "snow farms", but those are filling up and the city is considering an extraordinary measure - using the ocean. After two back-to-back massive storms in 2010, Baltimore ploughed snow right into the city's Inner Harbor. While this may seem like a no-brainer for cities near water, the practice is frowned upon for environmental reasons.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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To: MinorityRepublican

“How do US cities get rid of snow? “

Sacrifices to the Sun God.


21 posted on 02/09/2015 6:42:11 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: moovova

Call Mr.Plow,
That’s my name,
That name again
is Mr. Plow.


22 posted on 02/09/2015 6:42:26 PM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: MountainDad
Around here, we wait for warm temps, and it magically melts....

Around here we call that June.

23 posted on 02/09/2015 6:44:04 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: MinorityRepublican

I always liked how some commentator referred to Washington, DC’s snow removal plan: Spring.


24 posted on 02/09/2015 6:44:52 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
My local big-government liberal town just makes the piles on the sides of the roads bigger and taller. Then, upon the first warm spell with temps in the 70's, end of March or start of April, they send out front-end loaders and dump trucks and haul the melting snow away.

Something to do with using up the year's snow removal budget, I suppose.

25 posted on 02/09/2015 6:44:57 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Gay State Conservative
"...about 20 years ago a terrorist in black robes (meaning a Federal judge) ruled that the water of Boston harbor had to be clean enough to drink."

Last time I was in Boston, the harbor was still part of the Atlantic Ocean.

That would be a tall order to make ocean water safe to drink, but I would not put it past some of these Federal Dictators Judges we have today. ~;))

26 posted on 02/09/2015 6:46:37 PM PST by Ditto
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t know why Boston wouldn’t dump the snow straight into the harbour. For one, I can’t imagine that the harbour is that pristine that whatever might be in the snow would be a major detriment to it. Also, wherever they pile the snow, when it finally melts I bet it goes in to the storm sewers, which probably go straight into the harbour too.


27 posted on 02/09/2015 6:47:36 PM PST by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Pass a law.


28 posted on 02/09/2015 6:48:39 PM PST by PGalt
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To: MinorityRepublican

In the old days they used put it in the harbor....but with global warming you know...


29 posted on 02/09/2015 6:49:44 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They should load it on trains and send it out West to some low lakes and what-not. Or build a water pipeline to the West.


30 posted on 02/09/2015 6:51:25 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: Professional Engineer

“Reduce, reuse, recycle of course.”

LMAO.


31 posted on 02/09/2015 6:53:02 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

LOL!


32 posted on 02/09/2015 6:53:29 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: Gay State Conservative

So, this judge was not a fan of the song “Dirty Water” by the Standells, I take it?


33 posted on 02/09/2015 6:55:51 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: acapesket

Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Series!


34 posted on 02/09/2015 6:56:24 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: MinorityRepublican

The snow should be stored in a giant cooler and rationed to the poor in summer.


35 posted on 02/09/2015 7:01:36 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: MinorityRepublican

You get the admin mods to delete it extra snow.


36 posted on 02/09/2015 7:04:05 PM PST by ThomasThomas (EGO venit lego tantum titulus Posteri)
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To: Balding_Eagle
"I think the EPA has prohibited that."

Maybe there's room for the snow on top of their offices...

37 posted on 02/09/2015 7:04:27 PM PST by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: TNoldman

“Dump in Ocean.”

That’s what I was thinking. Maybe the holdup up is because an Environmental Impact study is required first?


38 posted on 02/09/2015 7:05:13 PM PST by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: Boogieman

Love that dirty water!…We just got rid of the wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Here in
Assachusetts have the most idiotic Liberals ever !
It is always a contradiction..Logic does NOT reign here.

Dirty water was a song..btw.. not my anthem.


39 posted on 02/09/2015 7:06:34 PM PST by acapesket
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To: BuffaloJack

rain goes into the waste treatment center through the storm sewers. It is treated just like household sewer water. That is a requirement from the EPA.

This has been a serious problem for older water and sewer systems through out the country, particularly in the East and Great Lakes States. Large water events have caused the overflow of sewers directly into the lakes or oceans. This happens less than a handful of times a year and the water is clear within days. Yet because of this we have to spend billions to comply with new regulations.

Your EPA at work.


40 posted on 02/09/2015 7:09:28 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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