AGENCY TESTIMONY
Overview of recent snow events and DSNY response
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Commissioner Lojan provides an overview of the Department of Sanitation's response to recent snow events in New York City. He highlights the scale of operations and resources deployed to manage snowfall.
- DSNY has responded to 5 snow events this winter
- Used tens of millions of pounds of salt and hundreds of thousands of gallons of brine
- Deployed thousands of workers, 2,500 plows, and 700 salt spreaders during a recent weekend snowfall
Javier Lojan
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We have already fought 5 snow events this winter using tens of 1,000,000 of pounds of salt and 100 of 1,000 of gallons of brine to make sure the streets and bike lanes are safe and passable.
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Just this past weekend, thousands of sanitation workers labored on 12 hour shifts driving 25 100 plows and 700 salt spreaders over, on 19,000 lane miles of New York City roadways to make sure that New Yorkers saw as little interruption to their lives as possible despite several inches of snow falling in some neighborhoods over a period of just a few hours.
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We plan all year long for this, revising routes, evaluating performance and overhauling equipment.