This section provides safe and clean city streets and sidewalks to Renton residents, and maintains these properties in the most cost-effective ways possible. This section maintains all curbs and streets and assists city utility crews with sidewalk repairs.
The City of Renton, as of 2017, has 330 center line miles and 825 lane miles of streets and right of ways. This division is responsible for sweeping and cleaning the city streets and right-of-ways, along with overseeing the street overlay projects and snow and ice winter operations.
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We have nine sanders, 11 trucks with plows, three anti-icer applicator trucks. All sanders and plows are loaded and tested annually in September/October, any issues or repairs have been completed by the operators and our fleet maintenance mechanics.
The anti-icing applicator trucks, which carry 1,600 gallons and a plow have been loaded, tested, and calibrated.
The city has 9,000 gallons of liquid anti-icer , Freezgard CI Plus (Magnesium Chloride with corrosion inhibitor) storage tanks. The city's vendor is ready if more is needed during a storm event.
Approximately 250 ton of road salt is on hand and over 1,000 ton of sand. The city uses a sand/salt mix of 25% salt.
This division has 15 street maintenance workers plus one night sweeper operator and two solid waste workers. We hold formal annual training sessions covering all winter operations and anti-icing applications with the drivers and alternate drivers have been held.
All drivers study their route map books and drive their respective routes so that they are familiar with what they look like without snow. Renton's streets look completely different when covered in snow. This route precheck helps prevent plow and truck damage when the snow fight begins. The city is divided into five regions and trucks are distributed as evenly as possible, based on hills, major arterials, priority locations, and routes.
Priority snow routes are arterials, secondary arterials and collectors, bridges, schools, hospitals and fire stations.
Many of these major routes have been pre-treated with anti-icer as soon as the city knows an event is on its way. This helps keep ice and snow from bonding to the pavement and allows quicker snow removal through plowing.