By Sarah Wallace

Snow clearing progressing amid equipment troubles

Dec 17, 2014 | 5:54 AM

Snow clearing in Prince Albert is about one-third complete for residential streets and that’s despite a broken gate on one of the City’s graders.

The public works department is hoping to have all residential streets complete by Christmas, but it has been delayed a bit due to the issue with the grader.

Brent Kennedy, roadways manager for the department, said it’ll be a week before it will be replaced.

Despite the equipment needing its gate fixed, the machine is still being used. Kennedy said they have two chase loaders following that specific grader so they can continue removing snow.  

“If your driveway gets plowed in, be patient, we have loaders coming to open up your driveways.”

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He said despite the delay they do have a lot of the west side of the city completed and will be making another push in that area later this week.

“What we have to do is we have to work around sanitation and their garbage pickup. When we started the push on Monday we went up into the Crescent Heights area, the east side part of town, we did Midtown, so when sanitation moves up to the east side we move up to the west side,” Kennedy explained.

“Then we vise-versa that when the week starts over, we go back to the east and [sanitation] goes back to the west.”

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