Hamilton’s ‘snow mountains’ grow by the day as storm cleanup continues

Metropolis crews are nonetheless cleansing up and trucking away as many as 300 truckloads of snow a day from clogged streets almost 10 days after a file storm dumped half a metre of the white stuff on Hamilton.

Appearing transportation operations head Mike Area stated whereas plows did the majority of street-clearing final week, there’s solely a lot room to retailer snow on the sides of city streets.

“Simply due to the sheer quantity of snow, we had a variety of giant snow piles ending up alongside sidewalks and curb areas that we have to take away,” he stated, including that requires actually shovelling snow into vans and off-loading it at designated dump websites.

As of Tuesday, 145,000 tonnes of snow — about 20,000 giant, frozen elephants-worth — had been dumped.

Many of the snow finally ends up at two primary areas: on Higher Ottawa Road close to the Linc and on the empty West Harbour lot on Barton Road West that when held the outdated Rheem manufacturing unit.

These websites each boast “snow mountains” that can solely get taller as periodic smaller snowfalls proceed so as to add to boulevard piles. “We run between 200 and 300 dump truck a great deal of snow a day and we’re nonetheless on a seven-days-a-week, 24-hour operation,” he stated.

“It’s nonetheless a continuing stream of vans.”