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Street superintendent outlines Rapid City pproach to winter storms: routes, brine and downtown snow hauling
Summary
Jesse Reid, Rapid City—ity street superintendent, detailed the city's snow-response priorities, equipment and materials, including brine production, expanded route counts and a new downtown snow-hauling plan.
Rapid City t the Nov. 26 Public Works Committee meeting, Jesse Reid, the city—ngineering street superintendent, presented the city epartment's winter storm operations and described priorities, equipment and material use and a new approach to downtown snow removal.
Reid said streets are treated in priority order: arterials and emergency routes (including steep grades and major intersections) first, then collectors and school routes, and residential streets last. "The initial service of streets during the snow and ice incident will be the applications of sand, salt, liquid deicer," he said, describing three service levels tied to snowfall: level A (about 2 to 4 inches), level B (4 to 6 inches) and level C (greater than 6 inches).
Reid described the fleet and staffing the city deploys: 19 full-time…
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