Posted on 02/09/2015 6:27:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The snowploughs are out in force in Boston, where 1.5m (61ins) has fallen in a month, but Mayor Martin Walsh says the city is running out of space in which to dump it. How do other snowy cities get rid of it?
The most common solution is dumping it where it can melt away. Last week, Chicago endured 48cm (19ins) of snow. As it piled up along roads, some of it was hauled away to 500 sites around the city - car parks and other empty spaces.
In Minneapolis, they haul snow into one large empty publicly owned space, according to Mike Kennedy of Minneapolis Public Works. But taking snow away with trucks is expensive and slow, he says. In nearby St Paul in 2011, city workers hauled and stacked so much snow into one empty spot it became known as "Mount Midway", which didn't melt until May.
Boston has similar sites they call "snow farms", but those are filling up and the city is considering an extraordinary measure - using the ocean. After two back-to-back massive storms in 2010, Baltimore ploughed snow right into the city's Inner Harbor. While this may seem like a no-brainer for cities near water, the practice is frowned upon for environmental reasons.
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Dump in Ocean.
Global Warming?
Don’t most American cities just wait a day or two?
> Baltimore ploughed snow right into the city’s Inner Harbor. While this may seem like a no-brainer for cities near water, the practice is frowned upon for environmental reasons.
If it were rain, it would get there anyway, so why not just dump it.
http://neighborshame.com/fargo-man-arrested-clearing-snow-flamethrower/
Guy in Fargo was arrested for using a flamethrower
What's wrong with combining one form of water with another?
I think the EPA has prohibited that.
Reduce, reuse, recycle of course.
An interesting dilemna. Having too much frozen water laying around.
Don’t most Americans, after it has snowed an inch or two, just huddle in their abodes with their guns at their sides and wait for the starving hordes to bash down the door, only to realize the snow has already melted?
Invite some politicians to speak; all that hot air will melt snow in no time.
NYC and Hoboken throw all the snow in the Hudson.
The Erf is Doooomed...
At least that is how big government says it is.
Nope,no here at least.You see...about 20 years ago a terrorist in black robes (meaning a Federal judge) ruled that the water of Boston harbor had to be clean enough to drink.That ruling ordered that the area spend billions and billions on treatment plants,etc.So now it's now not unusual for a household's water bills to be higher than their property tax bills.
And,of course,it also meant no dumping snow in the harbor because God knows that a dog might have peed on it.
Around here, we wait for warm temps, and it magically melts....
The halite/ chemical salt mix they are using is Nasty! Cannot even walk my dog on the street! Wonder if the freakin’ EPA approves this sh*t?
Don’t really want it on my beach! Nor do i wish to swim in it.
Because it would be racist. Putting snow in the ocean makes it less saline, causing people to be less buoyant. This will affect blacks more, causing more blacks to drown.
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