In St. Petersburg, more than 220 thousand cubic meters of snow were sent to recycling points in a week. As the press service of Smolny told RosBalt news agency, special equipment continues to methodically clean the highways and transport the collected shafts to snow-melting and snow-receiving points. In total, since the beginning of winter, the enterprises of the improvement committee have already removed a million cubic meters of snow from the city streets.
To date, the total height of the snow cover in the Northern capital has exceeded 80 cm. In recent days, the temperature in St. Petersburg has settled just below zero, without serious precipitation – no more than 1.5–2 cm of snow falls per day. However, road services, in addition to snow removal, also regularly carry out de-icing treatment of dangerous areas, paying special attention to sidewalks, pedestrian crossings and areas near bus stops.
In addition, over the past week, road workers cleaned 8 thousand storm drain grates.
On Thursday, the streets of St. Petersburg are cleaned by 869 units of equipment and 934 manual workers. The green areas are being tidied up by another 284 machines and 948 gardening specialists.
The 24-hour duty service of the improvement committee receives calls from citizens related to the maintenance and removal of snow from the areas under their jurisdiction by calling 314-60-13. The hotline numbers of enterprises are published on the committee’s page on VKontakte.
Meanwhile, as the chief weather forecaster of St. Petersburg, Alexander Kolesov, reported in his Telegram channel, an anticyclone is moving towards the city from the north, due to which abnormally cold weather may set in in the Northern capital immediately after the New Year. However, before this and on New Year’s Eve itself, temperatures around zero and sleet are expected. “There are such restructurings of processes taking place in the atmosphere that they simply cannot be predicted in advance,” the forecaster noted.
Source: Rosbalt
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