GRITTING UPDATE
Sunday, January 10th, 2010 by Cllr Bob Belam
Time 17.20pm
Forecast The forecast for tonight and early hours of tomorrow is predicting the continued chance of show showers, with accumulations of up to 3cm. Between any showers the sky will then clear allowing road surface temperatures to drop below freezing. (minus 1 Celsius)
There is a still a high risk of ice forming on wet surfaces or untreated roads and footways.
Today’s Progress
Gritters have continued to attend to accesses to secondary schools and routes to help with refuse and recycling tomorrow. Operatives from highways have continued to clear affected footways and have concentrated on access to schools. This work has been completed and has been helped by the thawing conditions.
Action proposed for tonight and tomorrow
Gritters will be out this early evening treating main roads and hilly routes, and then go on standby should the situation change. Gritting tomorrow, will, if the thaw continues concentrate on any priority access to schools, and then support the refuse and recycling routes for Tuesday.
Snow and ice on footways will be attended to by highways and cleansing operatives concentrating again on treating priority areas as necessary.
Salt supplies
Currently there is sufficient reserves to continue to treat high priority roads and other bus routes for 2 days based on the TfL criteria.
Although replacement salt supplies have been ordered, with the continuing high demand for supplies, London Councils in conjunction with TfL are now coordinating the availability of the borough’s salt supply, to ensure that each has a minimum of two days supply.
London Councils have confirmed that our next delivery of salt will be on the Tuesday 12 Jan.
Forecast prediction
The general weather conditions are expected to continue as snow showers and frosty nights for the next 5 days.
Next update
17.00pm Monday 11th Jan 2010
