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SNOW REMOVAL
$1M to ready for extreme winter weather Coquitlam council moves money for snow plowing, salt JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com
Cindy and Patrick Gorman have been helping people in the Tri-Cities put on parties for 30 years. But the party ends in July when they close their It’s My Party shop in Port Moody and retire. See the story on Page 11. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
In what’s become almost an annual tradition, Coquitlam city council will move $1 million into its Extreme Weather Reserve to ready for the next winter storm. Last Monday (May 16), council unanimously OK’d the transfer from the City Initiatives Reserve to prepare for major snow dumps and cold atmospheric rivers. The move comes after the municipality battled five big snowstorms from Dec. 3 and Feb. 2 — the worst starting Dec. 23 with the mercury at -16 C for several nights.
City manager Peter Steblin said it was the most severe winter weather in 10 years, with residents in the higher elevations seeing up to 100 cm of snow. And because there was little snowmelt plus compact snow on the roads — most of which had been plowed and salted — city staff fielded a total 1,648 service calls. According to Steblin’s report, public works crews in Coquitlam also had to contend with the salt shortage over the winter as the two main local suppliers ran out, leaving many Lower Mainland municipalities with few options to clear the white stuff. In Coquitlam, the city mixed in sand to stretch its salt stock, a measure that wasn’t particularly good for SEE
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