paul allen, winter road treatment - cornwall .paul allen network manager (east) cormac solutions

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Community Resilience &

Working Together

Winter road treatment

Paul Allen

Network Manager (East)

CORMAC Solutions Ltd

Introduction

CORMAC Solutions Ltd is the arms-length service

provider for highways and

environment

CORMAC provides the winter road treatment in

accordance with Cornwall

Councils Winter Service

Policy

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Cold leads to severe

ice warnings in

Devon and Cornwall

Traffic chaos

Milk delivery

concerns

Buses stopped

Coach crash in Cornwall leaves 2

dead and 47

injured

Snow shuts more than 400 schools in

Devon and Cornwall

Communities cut off

for days

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What do we do before winter?

Review the previous winter service delivery including feedback from highway users, stakeholders and our weather forecast provider

Review Cornwall Councils winter service policy

Ensure all our vehicles are serviced and tested (25 front line gritters)

Ensure we have sufficient trained drivers (min 75 No.)

Ensure we have sufficient salt stocks in our 8 salt barns with max capacity of 20,000 tonnes

Top up all salt bins and deliver salt to schools/CC properties

Ensure all 22 weather stations are serviced and updated

Review standby and operational procedures Review the Councils Winter Service website

What do we do during winter?

Provide a 24/7 standby service with staff and drivers

Assess daily weather forecasts and make decisions on treatment action

Monitor and amend instructions to drivers as necessary

Carryout salt treatment to the 25 precautionary salting routes across the county as necessary

Notify important stakeholders of our intended treatments

Show the intended treatments on the Councils website

Provide the media with road condition updates

Review need for additional resources when we get forecast snow and/or prolonged periods of ice

Monitor salt stocks and resources

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Precautionary Treatment Network

25 Routes

900 miles (20% of network)

100 tonnes of salt per countywide treatment

Max 3 hours

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What we cannot do during winter?

We cannot treat all 4500 miles of Cornish roads and the thousands of miles of footways.

We cannot treat the main A30 and A38 trunk roads.

We cannot guarantee that the treated roads will be free from frost/ice/snow.

In emergency situations we cannot respond to all the telephone calls and emails as quickly as people expect.

We cannot respond to every request for salt.

Cornwall Council website

www.cornwall.gov.uk/gritting

www.cornwall.gov.uk/snow

Gritter Twitter @CornwallRoads

Email roadstransportandparking@cornwall.gov.uk

Tel. 0300 1234 222

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How can communities be more resilient?

Be prepared for winter both as individuals and as

communities -

Better informed. Better planning. What if ?

Understand the main roads that are treated

Listen to the weather forecasts and view the daily

treatment actions on the CC website

Proactive town/parish councils

Additional salt bins

Additional salt dumpy bags

Spreaders/snow ploughs

Thank you.