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Memphis public works details winter response; council urges school coordination
Summary
Public Works Director Scott Morgan told the council the city treated priority routes with brine and plows beginning Jan. 21, deploying contractors and warming centers; council members pressed for clearer coordination with Shelby County Schools and for lessons learned on trash collection and automated trucks.
Public Works Director Scott Morgan told the Memphis City Council on Feb. 3 that the city mobilized a priority-based winter operations plan beginning Jan. 21 to keep emergency routes open and maintain connectivity to hospitals and warming centers.
"Our priority based winter operations plan, we began January 21," Morgan said, describing pretreatment with brine, 11 p.m. third-shift plowing and a mapped three-tier route system of primary, secondary and tertiary streets. He said the city used about 46,000 gallons of brine, treated roughly 1,800 lane miles (counting repeated treatments), applied about 2,500 tons of salt and logged more than 4,500 crew hours during the event.
Morgan described the storm as "historic," with up to 6…
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