{"id":115342,"date":"2019-03-23T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=115342"},"modified":"2019-03-25T06:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:44:49","slug":"district-1-winter-operations-cost-less-than-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/03\/23\/district-1-winter-operations-cost-less-than-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"ODOT winter operations update released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA &#8212; The Ohio Department of Transportation\u2019s District 1 has released an update on 2018-19 winter operations for each separate county, as well as the district as a whole. With the exception of Van Wert County, area counties\u2019 and the districtwide winter operations costs were lower than last winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ODOT-snowplow-in-action-1-2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47261\" width=\"350\" height=\"251\"\/><figcaption><strong>An Ohio Department of Transportation snowplow in action<\/strong>. <em>ODOT photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, with the 2018-19 winter season now hopefully completed, District 1 spent $7,392,996 on removing snow and ice from state and federal highways within the eight-county district, which includes&nbsp;Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Hardin, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert and Wyandot counties. That compares to $7,901842 last winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The district used 47,857 tons of salt and 1,115,953 gallons of de-icer this winter, compared to 60,598 tons of salt and 1,148,656 gallons of de-icer last winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The breakdown for Van Wert, Paulding, and Putnam counties is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert County<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>5,774 tons of salt this winter, versus 7,301 tons last winter<\/li><li>359,358 gallons of de-icer this winter, versus 245,486 gallons last winter<\/li><li>Total cost of $911,966 this winter, versus $902,294 last winter<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paulding County<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>5,197 tons of salt this winter, versus 6,291 tons last winter<\/li><li>63,251 gallons of de-icer this winter, versus 63,096 last winter<\/li><li>Total cost of $827,201 this winter, versus $931,491 last winter<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Putnam County<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>5,203 tons of salt this winter, versus 6,291 tons last winter<\/li><li>53,957 gallons of de-icer this winter, versus 52,663 gallons last winter<\/li><li>Total cost of $776,592 this winter, versus $836,033 last winter.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor LIMA &#8212; The Ohio Department of Transportation\u2019s District 1 has released an update on 2018-19 winter operations for each separate county, as well as the district as a whole. With the exception of Van Wert County, area counties\u2019 and the districtwide winter operations costs were lower than last winter. Overall, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 22:31:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}