GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The weekend blizzard is over, streets are being plowed, and now the next shoe is about to drop in the effort to minimize the impact.
The weather forecast calls for temperatures in the 50’s by the weekend, and for multiple days in a row after that.
That’s going to melt a lot of this snow.
“Gravity always does it’s work…it wants to flow downhill. Which is where we put the stormwater inlets for our roadways.”
And Chris Pirlot, with Green Bay Public Works, says if those inlets are blocked with snow and ice, much of that melt has nowhere to go.
“We don’t want it overflowing, over the top of curbs, into people’s yards.”
Green Bay has about 15-thousand stormwater inlets.
“I’m not convinced the DPW is not going to get to all these thousands of inlets before Mother Nature decides to turn this snow into water.”
Pirlot is asking home owners to try and keep the ones on their property clear.
“All this snow is going to turn to water and we don’t want it standing on the roads.”
The city is also moving now from snow plowing emphasis to keeping the inlets open.
