DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — The snow plow team at the Decatur Streets Department is gearing up for another long night. To clear the roads following Friday's snowfall, the Streets Department is working overtime and overnight.
Rob Wagers, the Operations Manager at the City of Decatur Streets Department said although they just finished clearing the streets of the snow from Sunday and Monday, they're going right back out. "We've had a lot of calls for the neighborhoods with this new snow that we've had, because we basically had just gotten through the neighborhoods, most of them, and not all of them. And now here is more snow." Wagers said.
Wagers says they'll be using the same system they used earlier this week, making sure to salt and completely clear the main roads. "We'll salt hills, stop signs, and curbs in neighborhoods. We don't salt neighborhoods in their entirety. We salt our primaries in their entirety, but we'll go -- We're going to tidy up the, major routes, the primary routes overnight today. And then we'll get into the neighborhoods as the evening comes on."
Wagers says a team of 17 people will plow Friday night until 11 p.m., and the overnight team will take over from 11 p.m. until 11 a.m. on Saturday to clear neighborhoods. "I'm sure that there will be more neighborhood work to be done. So we'll work in the neighborhoods overnight. It's a lot easier when people get home and get off the road for us to do our job than it is during rush hour." Wagers explained.
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