ARCHBOLD WEATHER

Enough Road Salt Left, Officials Say





Enough road salt remains to get through the rest of the winter, officials of the Village of Archbold, German Township, Fulton County, and the Ohio Department of Transportation said this week.

“We’re sitting pretty good. It depends on how many more storms we get,” said Jim Meyer, assistant superintendent of the Fulton County Highway Garage.

“We should be good if Mother Nature treats us right,” he said.

Toby Hines, of the Fulton County ODOT garage, said winter storms that hit now will be of short duration, and won’t require large amounts of salt.

“I’m not too concerned. We’re okay,” he said.

Dennis Howell, Archbold village administrator, said the village has enough road salt on hand to get through the winter, and there’s more on order.

Dan Leininger, German Township road superintendent, said a load of salt was just delivered to German Township.

“I think we’re good for the rest of the winter.”

Dribble

Hines said the ODOT garage is getting “a little dribble” of salt delivered.

“Morton, at Toledo, is out. We’re getting it from Fairport, east of Cleveland, where it’s coming right from the mine. It’s really nice stuff.

Hines said he had 250 tons of salt on hand, with another 350 tons coming.

Plus, ODOT District Two headquarters in Bowling Green wanted the Fulton County garage to get another 250 tons on top of that.

Because the supply of salt is short, Hines said the distributors are making sure every political subdivision gets at least some of their request.

“We’ve never been out,” Hines said.

“About 250 tons was as low as we’ve ever gotten.”

Leininger said at one point, German Township was out of pure salt, but they had a supply of salt mixed with course sand.

“It saves money, and it gives some traction,” he said.

Meyer said Fulton County does the same thing. The county garage has about 400 tons of salt left, which would yield 1,200 tons of salt and course sand mixed.

Conserve

Meyer said he’s told the county snowplow drivers to save salt.

“I’ve really stressed to the townships and to our guys, ‘conserve, conserve, conserve.'”

While it’s easier for the plow drivers to plow off an intersection once, then put down salt, Meyer said the drivers should scrape more often, and wait for the wind to die down before spreading salt.- David Pugh


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