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Snow removal and snow emergency information |Municipalityof Bloomington MN Skip to main contentMunicipalityof Bloomington MN Search Search Site Search Site A to Z Index Ask theMunicipalityCalendar News Menu Home Residents Services for Residents New to Bloomington? 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During a snow emergency a parking ban is in effect. Cars may not be parked on the street until the street has been plowed full width. Sign up for snow emergency alerts  Would you prefer to be notified by email or by text message? (Please segregate below.)   EmailText Message/SMS Email Address:    TheMunicipalitymoreover posts snow emergencies on its Facebook page and Twitter feed. Don't let kids tunnel in snow banks For their safety, children should be instructed to NOT play on these banks or make tunnels in them. Between snowfalls, theMunicipalityor Hennepin County may remove glut snow from the roadsides using large equipment. This would pose a grave danger to any kids who may be burrowed into snowbanks. Adopt a fire hydrant and alimony it well-spoken of snow Do a good deed for your polity – well-spoken snow yonder from the fire hydrants near your property. This provides quick wangle for firefighters and water maintenance and makes it easier to respond efficiently in specimen of an emergency. Owners of private hydrants are responsible transplanting the snow yonder from them, and are strongly encouraged to do so, in order to simplify locating the hydrants in an emergency. Who is responsible for snow removal? Snow removal is primarily the responsibility of the Street, Park and Facilities Sections in the Public Works Maintenance Division. In addition: Police monitor street conditions and enforce snow-related ordinances. Equipment personnel alimony plows ready to operate and self-mastery quick repairs as necessary during a storm. Utility crews plicate Maintenance staff to operate equipment. Residents help by complying with snow-related ordinances and reporting slippery intersections or other unsafe areas they encounter. Snow plowing facts Bloomington averages 40 inches of snow per year. TheMunicipalitytypically has 10 to 12 plowable snowfalls per year. Each and every "full plow" ways transplanting snow from: 2,016 lane-miles of road (the loftiness from here to Mazatlan, Mexico). 250 miles of sidewalks (about the loftiness to Green Bay, Wisconsin). 512 cul-de-sacs. 33 skating rinks. Every municipal towers parking lot and walkway. The stereotype forfeit for these services per household is well-nigh $10.80 per year. The strategy used to plow streets, sidewalks and otherMunicipalityfacilities depends on the interaction of several factors: Time the snow began. Duration of snowfall. Type of snow - light/dry or wet/heavy. Temperature surpassing and without snowfall.Upperwinds - drifting. Snow accumulation. Available equipment - breakdowns. Available staff. Anti-icing To make roads safer surpassing snow falls, theMunicipalitypre-treats streets with an anti-icing souse solution. The souse solution, a liquid mixture of salt and water that is sprayed on, prevents ice from bonding with street surfaces. Once the liquid solution is sprayed, it evaporates and leaves overdue thin lines of salt. The salt prevents the bonding of snow and ice to the street so snowplows can scrape the street clean. This process reduces the value of salt that needs to be unromantic when streets are plowed. The anti-icing process leaves several stripes of salt behind, making roads that have recently been de-iced hands identifiable.  Click here for increasingly information on the Anti-Icing Production Upgrade which has significant improvements to theMunicipalityof Bloomington's Anti-Icing/Brine making capabilities. The use of anti-icing technology reduces the value of salt needed to well-spoken snow and ice from municipality streets. Video of Bloomington Today: February 8, 2012 Sidewalk plowing Park Maintenance is responsible for snow removal on over 250 miles of sidewalks throughout the city. We have five sidewalk snow removal units. Removal from a snowfall of 3-5 inches takes approximately four days to complete. Sidewalks are sorted into three groups. First priority: School walking areas, heavily used wheelchair wieldy areas and upper use areas by main roads. Second priority: Walks expanding out from the school and withal major roads. Third priority: Residential and industrial areas. If snow falls over a long time period, theMunicipalitymay repeatedly return to priority one areas surpassing transplanting lesser-used areas. Residents are asked to be patient in such situations. Crews will well-constructed the job, but it may take two to three weeks, depending on weather conditions. Plows need to push snow off both sides of a sidewalk. In heavy snowfall, banks withal walks may wilt too upper for V-plow snow removal. In this case, snow blowers must be used extending the time for completion by at least 2-3 times. Obstacles in right-of-ways, either on or withal sidewalks, i.e. timbers, boulders, shrubs or trash cans, hinder snow removal. TheMunicipalityappreciates your help in maintaining sidewalks and keeping right-of-ways well-spoken of obstacles, so snow can be removed as quickly and efficiently as possible. Contact Information Maintenance Division 952-563-8760 maintenance@BloomingtonMN.gov E-Subscribe Get email updates via email or text message when a snow emergency is declared. 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