Street Department Snow Removal Information
This page will provide you with general information regarding the effort the City of Sunset Hills puts forth to remove snow. During snow events, we will attempt to place minute-by-minute updates on this page during normal business hours only. This is your best place to start when you need to find out the latest information on in-process snow removal efforts. Make sure to hit your "Refresh" button after you first access the page since updates will happen frequently.
UPDATE INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE
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Snow Removal Route Map
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The City has an 10 man street department (4 men from the Parks Department will help with snow removal) for a total of a 14 man snow removal operation.
There are 208 Streets in the City.
The City removes snow from 55.26 miles of street.
Off hours call outs are made by a private weather forecasting service contracted by the City for 24 hour notification capability.
If more than 4" of snow are forecast shifts of 6 men will be placed on the job.
The crews have to concentrate first, on the main routes before clearing and salting subdivision streets.
During removal, there is one truck per route concentrating on the main routes first, then the secondary routes before the second pass will be made.
Cars parked on the street provide real access problems for snow removal trucks. Please see to it that your vehicle is not parked in the street during snow events.
Cul-de-sacs take extra time and care to service.
We cannot service cul-de-sacs with cars parked in them.
The City cannot provide private service for driveways.
State and County routes are not cleared by City crews. These are serviced by the respective jurisdiction.
Private Street Snow Removal Note
There are several private streets that have maintenance issues that are keeping them from being on our list for snow removal service. Two people on each of these streets have been notified by mail that their street is currently not on the snow removal route for this year. Those letters gave the specific reasons as to why they would not be serviced. It gave the contact information for the recipient to call, after the repairs were made, so that Street Superintendent, Bob Riggs could inspect the street to place it back on the route for snow removal service. If you live on the following streets, you are on a private street that will not have snow removal service from the City of Sunset Hills:
Belfast Drive
Birch Tree Lane off Eddie & Park
Bird Haven Lane
Bond Place
Chrisann Lane
Cottage Ridge
Friendship Ridge
Little Baish Lane
Meppen Drive
Moresi Drive
Rock Alva Road
Rosalind Court
Sappington Place
Southgate Lane
Sunset Glen Street
Sunset Grove Court
Sunset View Estates
Timber Creek
Winter Estates Drive
Workbench
UPDATE INFORMATION FOR SNOW DAYS
If you would like a direct link to the latest snow removal weather information, you can go to National Weather Service where they have the forecast and a link to weather radar for St. Louis. They have the latest weather information in the form of a radar loop.
Friday, January 8, 2010
2:14pm, There is nothing to report at this time.
If you have specific questions that you would like to ask of Street Superintendent, Robert Riggs, you can e-mail him at rriggs@sunset-hills.com Also, you can call and leave a voice mail at his phone number of 842-6080.