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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
Council’s 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 Council’s 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 Council’s 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 Council’s 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 [email protected]
� 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.