{"id":48827,"date":"2014-02-22T06:52:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T11:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=48827"},"modified":"2014-02-22T06:53:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T11:53:24","slug":"odot-has-update-on-snow-removal-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/02\/22\/odot-has-update-on-snow-removal-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"ODOT has update on snow removal costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

ODOT District 1 information<\/i><\/p>\n

LIMA — The Ohio Department of Transportation\u2019s District 1 has provided a winter operations update, this one showing that the district has spent more than $7.5 million ice and snow removal costs during the most expensive winter to date for the eight-county ODOT district.<\/p>\n

Van Wert County led the district in salt brine use, with 95,290 gallons used. The next highest brine usage was in Wyandot County, which used 46,982 gallons.<\/p>\n

\"ODOT<\/a>The high brine use could have reduced salt usage locally. Van Wert County had the fourth-highest consumption of salt, with a total of 7,923.83 tons used so far this year. Hancock County\u2019s salt usage was highest at 9,524 tons, while the district as a whole consumed 56,691.05 tons of salt year-to-date, compared to 43,431.13 tons used last season.<\/p>\n

According to District 1 Deputy Director Kirk Slusher, the district has 13,360.16 tons of salt remaining on hand.<\/p>\n

The district spent has spent nearly $2 million more this year in snow and ice removal costs than its previously worst winter of reason memory, 2010-2011, when $5.58 million was spent. Over the past decade, ODOT District 1 has spent an average of $4.1 million in snow and ice removal costs.<\/p>\n

Another $69,700 has been spent so far to patch potholes in District 1, with Hancock County again leading the district, with $22,388.98 spent on pothole patching to date this winter.<\/p>\n

In between storms, ODOT crews in the eight-county district repair potholes, which appear when the freeze-thaw cycle begins in late winter, with cold mix as time and weather allow.<\/p>\n

So far, Slusher noted, this year has been a typical one in the number of pothole repairs made in the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ODOT District 1 information LIMA — The Ohio Department of Transportation\u2019s District 1 has provided a winter operations update, this one showing that the district has spent more than $7.5 million ice and snow removal costs during the most expensive winter to date for the eight-county ODOT district. Van Wert County led the district in […]<\/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-48827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 02:38:08","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\/48827","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=48827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}