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Yelm staff present winter operations plan outlining anti-icing, priority routes and staffing
Summary
Dean Norton, public services department operations manager, presented the City of Yelm's winter operations plan, detailing upgrades to anti-icing equipment, routing priorities and staffing for snow and ice events.
Dean Norton, public services department operations manager, presented the City of Yelm's winter operations plan to the City Council on Oct. 28, describing equipment, routing priorities and staffing protocols the city will use during snow and ice events.
Norton said the city used an interlocal agreement with Thurston County last year to purchase anti-ice material and that the agreement produced "about $2,500" in savings this year; the savings allowed the city to purchase two larger tanks and replace a gravity filling method with a pump for faster, safer truck refills. "That allowed us to get a pretreatment done quite a bit faster and much more efficiently," Norton said.
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