As we still wait for the snow to melt from the major snow event, we had a little over a week ago, the Ohio Department of Transportation says that Northwest Ohio, so far this year, have used fewer amount of material and driven less miles from the same time period last year.
The 16 counties that make up ODOT District 1 and 2 used 25 tons less salt this year, and 1.3 million fewer gallons of de-icer. Drivers drove 413,000 miles less this year compared to last year. But weather forecasters say most of the precipitation that we are going to see this winter will be from February and beyond. Last year we had snow fall as late as April, so ODOT road managers say they are on guard for any future snow events that come our way.
