NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson Public Works Director Cecil Weible let the City Council know at their meeting on Tuesday how much work has gone into storm recovery thus far.
"Since the storm started January 4th, we have spent about 860 hours, man-hours, either pre-treating or attacking the storm. We actually still have a crew out currently on Main Street until 8 o'clock tonight," Weible said. "Throughout the storm, we used eight tandem dump trucks with plows and salt spreaders. The four new trucks with plows, and then we had the one other small truck, so 13 total trucks out plowing and moving snow and spreading salt."
There were a lot of city employees involved in the project.
"We used 33 employees for that 860 hours," Weible said. "We used a lot on pre-treating since we also pre-treated all the residential streets this time. So we actually used 34,000 gallons of salt brine for this storm event. That was in pre-treating and pre-wetting the salt while we were out. That also equated to 349 tons of salt, so it was a very cold event. The salt did its job slowly, but we are getting some good melt, so through all the lanes, lane miles pre-treated and or plowed, cycling that through a couple times on certain streets. We did about 4,000 lane miles within Hutch, so that's a lot of time spent behind the wheel moving snow around."
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