{"id":82945,"date":"2016-12-24T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=82945"},"modified":"2016-12-27T08:17:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T13:17:41","slug":"odot-snow-removal-costs-higher-than-last-winter-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/12\/24\/odot-snow-removal-costs-higher-than-last-winter-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"ODOT snow removal costs up this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMA &#8212; The first snow update from the Ohio Department of Transportation\u2019s District 1 shows that area residents may see more snow than they did last winter, which was a relatively mild winter. That&#8217;s especially true when last winter is compared to the winter of 2014-15, one of the worst in recent memory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47261\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ODOT-snowplow-in-action-1-2014.jpg\" alt=\"An Ohio Department of Transportation snowplow in action. (ODOT photo)\" width=\"350\" height=\"251\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>An Ohio Department of Transportation snowplow in action<\/strong>. <em>(ODOT photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>District 1, which covers eight counties &#8212; Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Hardin, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, and Wyandot &#8212; has spent a total of $1.37 million so far for snow removal material, equipment, and labor. That compares to just $260,375 spent last year at the same time, according to ODOT Deputy Director Kirk Slusher.<\/p>\n<p>At this time last year, approximately 700 tons of salt had been used on District 1 roads, which compares to this year\u2019s 13,730 tons &#8212; a substantial increase over the winter of 2015-16. As it has for several years, ODOT\u2019s District 1 has used far more deicing liquids than actual salt, with a total of 168,010 tons of liquids, such as brine, being used. Unlike the winter of 2014-15, when Van Wert County was near the top of District 1 in terms of money spent on snow removal, the local ODOT garage has spent the least money this year so far to remove snow and ice. The local garage has spent $133,525 this year, which compares to $260,316 spent by Hancock County, which also has the most lane miles to cover: 581, versus 375 for Van Wert County.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Meanwhile, although snow removal costs are substantially higher than last year, it\u2019s too soon to tell if District 1 is in for another winter like that of 2014-15 &#8212; the worst winter in recent memory. That winter, ODOT\u2019s District 1 spent $8.7 million for snow and ice removal.<\/p>\n<p>The average in the district for a winter is $4.1 million, a figure District 1 could hit this year, with more than $1 million already spent this early in the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor LIMA &#8212; The first snow update from the Ohio Department of Transportation\u2019s District 1 shows that area residents may see more snow than they did last winter, which was a relatively mild winter. That&#8217;s especially true when last winter is compared to the winter of 2014-15, one of the worst in recent [&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-82945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 21:04:30","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\/82945","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=82945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}