{"id":97246,"date":"2018-01-06T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T14:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=97246"},"modified":"2018-01-08T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:50:19","slug":"odot-district-1-reports-salt-de-icer-use-up-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/01\/06\/odot-district-1-reports-salt-de-icer-use-up-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"ODOT District 1 says salt, de-icer use up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMA &#8212; The Ohio Department of Transportation\u2019s District 1 has released a summary of winter operations within the eight-county district, which includes Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Hardin, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, and Wyandot counties.<\/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=\"\" 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>The summary shows an increase in cost and materials used this winter, compared to 2016-17, as well as the number of miles driven so far.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the eight counties in District 1 have used a total of 20,375 tons of salt so far this winter, as well as 248,743 tons of liquid de-icing fluid. A total of 251,024 miles has been driven for snow and ice control, at a total cost of $2,141,461.<\/p>\n<p>That compares with the same period last winter, when 14,927 tons of salt and 150,173 gallons of liquid de-icing fluid were used. A total of 174,579 miles were driven at this time last winter for snow and ice control at a total cost of $1,946,073.<\/p>\n<p>The district includes a total of 3,355 lane miles of highways in the eight counties.<\/p>\n<p>In Van Wert County, with 370 lane miles of highway, 2,603 tons of salt and 64,574 tons of de-icing liquid have been used for far this winter, with 29,386 miles driven at a cost of $248,593, according to ODOT\u2019s District 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor LIMA &#8212; The Ohio Department of Transportation\u2019s District 1 has released a summary of winter operations within the eight-county district, which includes Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Hardin, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, and Wyandot counties. The summary shows an increase in cost and materials used this winter, compared to 2016-17, as well as 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-97246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 14:24:48","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\/97246","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=97246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}