First, plows don't pick up snow, they only push it, so your idea won't work for plows. Shopping centers often go to the extra expense of trucking out snow, but it's sure not cheap. Usually they just find a far part of their own parking lot to take it to. Would you really expect a truck to drive from say, Gaithersburg all the way to a river in a snowstorm? And what would they do once they got there? Not like we have truck ramps over the river that they can safely pull back to and dump - again, in a snowstorm.
Oh, and all those chemicals end up in the rivers anyway as the snow melts. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Rich Schinnell <[email protected]>wrote: > FWIW: > > I still can't figure out why the local leaders are missing the best > place to dispose of all of the snow removed from streets. > > There appears to be some sort of River running between VA/DC/MD that > carries > a lot of liguid to the sea that might possibly accept all the snow that > is being dumped on a large parking lot in DC. > > What did I miss on this low tech solution to a high tech problem?? > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
