As of Wednesday morning, the city had already used 2,500 tons of salt and public works employees had put in more than 3,000 hours of work.
Those public works employees are responsible for clearing the city’s 1,700 lane miles of roadway.
The city’s focus and priority always is plowing major corridors and collector roads before working on residential roadways when they have more than four inches of snowfall, Dickstein said.
Snow downtown has to be removed by dump trucks, and not just pushed to the side of the road. That snow is taken to Triangle Park to be dumped.
City crews have already removed 500 truckloads of snow, as of Wednesday morning.
“It is quite a chore, just for the snow removal,” Dickstein said.
Snow totals Sunday-Monday varied across the Dayton region, but reports of 8-9 inches were common just south of the city, and totals of about 6 inches were widely reported just north of town.
The largest two-day snowfall at the Dayton airport in the previous decade had been 7.5 inches on Feb. 3-4 of 2022.
Dayton Public Schools closed for the third consecutive day Wednesday. A social media post from the school district said the decision was made “after the District’s weather team re-convened with further information about road conditions.”
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