Good morning!
That ended up being a pretty good-sized snow! The airport is reporting only 5.6″ but the majority of the metro is 8-10″. With this much snow falling and very little melting having occurred, most snow vendors are talking with their property managers about hauling snow.
The very easy answer to the question is: DON’T DO IT!!!!! Making room for new snow is necessary, but is very extremely expensive. Here are a couple of strategies for property managers to avoid hauling snow:
- Identify new places for piles. It was a great goal in November to retain each and every one of those parking lot spaces, but do you really need them all? Starting to fill those back spaces can save a lot of money.
- Stack it. Do you have room behind those piles? Have your snow vendor come in with a large bucket and pile that snow pile higher and further back to make room for more snow. This is difficult on small sites but if you have 20-30′ of turf surrounding your parking lot it should be fine.
Blow it. Many properties have large turf areas to where you can blow the snow. Have a loader or v-plow push the piles over and then have your snow vendor blow the snow into the open areas. They can hold significant amounts of snow.
If none of these options work for you – and quite often they don’t – hauling is the only option. Be sure to ask your snow vendor where they will be taking the snow. Quite often snow piles are moved to lakes or rivers and all the salt, debris and junk melts directly into the water. Retention ponds are generally alright to drop snow into because most of the debris and salt is filtered out before it hits our water supply.
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments below.
Have a great day!
Brad
lot sweeping and concrete work. We also offer landscape consulting services to give recommendations on how to save money on your landscape, conserve water or conduct site visits to be sure your contractor is providing the highest quality of work.
