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Public works director: salt delayed, crews repairing 40–60 potholes a day; council presses for enforcement of repaving standards
Summary
Interim DPW Director Hector Weah (Weir) told council that a 1,600-ton salt order remains undelivered due to statewide supply constraints, crews are repairing 40–60 potholes per day after two major snowstorms, and the city enforces a moratorium that requires curb-to-curb repaving within five years of utility cuts; council members pressed for inspection and enforcement on developer cuts to new repaving.
Interim Department of Public Works Director Hector Weah (Weir) briefed the Trenton City Council on March 3 about winter operations, salt supply and pothole response.
Weah told council the city’s entire salt stock was depleted after two back-to-back snowstorms and that an outstanding 1,600-ton order has not yet been delivered; the vendor told DPW deliveries are being delayed statewide until ice on the Delaware thaws. While praising crews for…
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