MARCH 18, 2010 ISSUE
Question Around the Office
Where is Boone’s Snow Going Now?
In our February 11 issue, in response to a reader’s question, we reported that the Town of Boone was using dump trucks, front-end loaders, tractors and a skid steer loader to remove and relocate the thousands of pounds of snow collected from town streets to a site located across the street from the Boone National Guard Armory on Hunting Hills Lane. This week, a reader called and reported that the Town of Boone was collecting the snow stored at that site and moving it to an unknown location. We wondered where the snow was going now.
According to Boone Public Works Director Blake Brown, town staff is relocating the mounds of leftover snow to the old location of Lowe’s Hardware on State Farm Road, a property owned by Appalachian Regional Healthcare System. The hospital system offered use of the site for snow storage free of charge.
“We needed to get the snow out of the county’s lot because spring softball starts soon,” explained Brown.
To be good stewards of the Hunting Hills Lane property, which is owned by Watauga County, Public Works will re-gravel the site to stabilize the land, which is saturated from weeks of storing snow collected from town streets.
“The county has been very helpful with [allowing the town to use that site for snow storage],” said Brown. “And Appalachian Regional Healthcare System has been great to let us dump snow at that site.”
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