Monday, February 11, 2013
Are you satisfied or frustrated with how the town handled the area’s 5th largest snowstorm in history? Let us know by posting a comment below.
Now that the snow has fallen, and started to melt, it’s your time to rate how the town’s plows handled the more than 2 feet of snow that fell Friday and Saturday. We put the question to our Facebook followers last night and the town's clean-up effort got mixed reviews. Some of the people said their neighborhoods were well plowed and the roads were clear, but others were less impressed. 'I live on Cresthaven Drive, aweful. Upland and all those roads are awful too! Our street is not even sanded...there is no way I would send any child on a school bus tomorrow' one reader wrote. Others said that while the roads had been plowed, they were too narrow: 'Someone needs to get over to Kimball Road/South Bedford street immediately. The snow there is…
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Burlington Department of Public Works Superintendent John Sanchez requested additional funds for snow clean-up, plowing and sanding.
Burlington Department of Public Works Superintendent John Sanchez come before the Board of SelectmenMonday night for an increase to the town’s snow removal budget. Sanchez explained that the high amounts of snow that has hit the town this year, roughly 72 inches, including over four-and-a-half feet in January alone, requires the town to increase the snow and ice deficit account. Under Massachusetts state law, snow removal accounts are allowed to run in a deficit, with approval by the Selectmen and Ways and Means Committee. Sanchez asked the board to approve an additional $750,000 in the deficit account to help the town manage snow removal throughout the rest of the year. This amount is on top of the $350,000 originally approved for snow …
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Snow removal challenges
Winter storms have battered the Northeast this season and no one is more aware of the impact of those storms than Burlington’s Superintendent of Public Works, John Sanchez. Storms have pummeled the Greater Boston area this year, dumping a whopping 59 inches of snow on Burlington and surrounding towns. With eight weeks remaining before spring officially arrives, the Department of Public Works is preparing to deal with the additional snowfall that is almost sure to come. According to Sanchez, the Town allocates $350,000 each year to snow removal. The number is sufficient for a year like 2006-2007 which saw only two major storms. But when Mother Nature unleashes her wintry fury on the region as she did in the winter of 2008-2009, the costs …
BurlGirl
10:39 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
If they don't push back the snowbanks at the beginning during a 12 inch storm, they'll never catch up! If they send the 'landscaper trucks' to do plowing let's hope we don't have HUGE storms because they just don't have the POWER. A few days later, the town heavy equipment needs to push back the corners. SIDEWALKS along Rt3A in the Town Center Overlay district and bus stops need special attention… more ›