Logan mayor on the great job done by snow plow crews and the great electric power challenges

A file photo of a snowplow clearing a road in Cache Valley.

LOGAN — Logan Mayor Holly Daines recently gave her State of the City address and as she was writing it, she realized that it was her five-year anniversary on the job.

She said the city has accomplished great things, thanks to her fantastic team. Logan has about 450 employees and with all the snow this winter she praised the city’s snow removal crew.

On KVNU’s monthly Speak to the Mayor program on Wednesday, Daines said she recently got up at 4a.m. to ride along with a snowplow driver as he was clearing roads after a snow storm.

Sometimes you just don’t realize all the things that they deal with, realize the schedules they keep to try and get us to work on time, so, it was really interesting. The city has 154 miles of roads, we have ten of the large snowplows, they’re divided into six routes. During the winter the supervisors…there’s the streets department manager and his deputy, and when there’s bad weather predicted, I don’t think they really sleep at night,” Daines explained.

With all the snow this winter, a listener wanted to know if there is still a city requirement to clear snow off sidewalks in front of homes and apartments.

“Yes. There absolutely is and we do usually issue courtesy notices, especially the first time if people aren’t clearing. But more and more people are trying to be out-and-about walking, getting places, getting to bus stops. So, yes, the property owner…and again, if they have renters, then they need to arrange either for snow removal or have their renters do it. But yes, there is a law that says you have to clean snow, I can’t remember if it’s within 24 hours (but)the sooner you do it, the better.”

In her State of the City address, Daines talked about some of the challenges now, that did not exist just a few years ago – one being the need for more infrastructure for electric vehicles.

She said the challenge of providing enough electricity to meet growth will continue in 2023.

“The challenge is, with our growth we have increased demand for electricity, with additional electric vehicles. And as we continue to electrify everything from our homes with new appliances, water heaters, whatever, we have significant additional load. Now at the same time, our resources, our baseload energy is being cut back.”

Daines said they are adding a lot of additional renewables like solar power, but that is limited, so there must really be enough baseload power to offset that.

She said power challenges are not unique to our area but it really is a Western U.S. problem.

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1 Comment

  • jason baugh March 4, 2023 at 2:44 pm Reply

    I completly agree. Thank you snowplows!

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