VAIL — When the flakes keep falling every day, the town’s snow removal crews focus first on simply keeping the roads passable. The fine tuning comes later.
Charlie Turnbull, Vail street superintendent, has seen the progression of Vail’s snow removal system as it grew more and more sophisticated over the years. While adding heated streets makes removing snow from roads simpler in some parts of Vail, higher standards and less available storage space in the non-snowmelt areas have made the process much more complex in other parts of town.
That’s why the city uses street snow blowers that blow the snow into a dump truck that hauls it away to a snow storage site.
Although the initial storms create havoc, Turnbull is also focused on what comes next.
“Once it stops snowing, we gotta get the snowpack off the road because it thaws and freezes and makes it even harder to get off,” Turnbull said.
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