The City strongly urges residents to postpone non-essential travel, as this allows plow crews to more efficiently treat roadways and creates safer travel for those who must go. Motorists should give snowplows plenty of room, rather than driving directly through piles of plowed snow.
The staff has established a priority plowing system to prioritize main traffic routes first for treatment before shifting focus onto neighborhood streets, cul-de-sacs, and alleys.
Residential
Snow removal can be a challenging and time-consuming task for homeowners, often taking hours and effort. Furthermore, this task can be dangerous for the elderly or those not in good physical shape who try shoveling alone – numerous people end up at hospitals each year due to broken bones, dehydration, and even heart attacks due to snow removal efforts.
An effective way to avoid this scenario is to hire a professional Naperville snow removal service this winter to maintain your driveway, sidewalks, and pathways. This will enable you to leave without fear of becoming trapped by snow drifts while ensuring safety from accidents.
As such, this will protect you against liability related to customer and employee injuries caused by slippery conditions at your business, while keeping it open throughout winter.
Commercial
No matter if you own or reside in a business or not, trying to remove snow alone can be dangerous and should always be left to professionals. Each year too many individuals suffer from broken bones, dehydration and heart attacks while trying to shovel or blow their own snow themselves – choosing an effective professional snow removal service could save them from pain and discomfort while protecting families or employees from potentially lethal accidents on slippery roads.
Dependable commercial snow management services can assist businesses of all sizes with preventing snow buildup issues on their properties, keeping their properties open to customers, vendors, and staff access. Hiring the appropriate snow service could prevent injury while saving your company money in liability claims and productivity costs.
City crews follow a priority plowing system, in which arterials and main streets are cleared before residential side streets and cul-de-sacs. Private driveways should be shoveled to avoid blocking snowplows or burying mailboxes, fire hydrants, or streetlights.
Industrial
Snow removal is an absolute necessity for industrial properties. Parking lots, walkways, and entrance areas must be cleared of snow for employee and customer safety; otherwise, slip-and-fall accidents could prove disastrous to business owners.
The City uses a priority plowing system, prioritizing main traffic routes before residential side streets, cul-de-sacs, alleys, and dead ends. Rock salt is the most cost-effective form of snow and ice control for smaller accumulations.
Property owners are required to maintain sidewalks on their properties in accordance with City code to ensure pedestrians, including children walking to school, can safely navigate roadways. In addition, clearing away areas around fire hydrants and meters for firefighters and utility meter readers is recommended.
Professional snow removal companies work to keep commercial properties accessible and safe for staff, clients or customers. Services may include snow plowing, ice management and deicing.
Municipal
During snow events, crews work around the clock plowing and salting streets to keep traffic moving safely. Personnel also plow/salt City parking lots like the Library Lot and Lincoln Lot across from the Government Center as well as City-owned sidewalks like train stations and downtown. Furthermore, snow removal crews clear snow at all fire stations, hydrants, and meters for utility meter readers as well as clear snow at fire hydrants for utility meter readers. Residents are strongly encouraged to shovel their sidewalks as per City code to help ensure pedestrians – particularly children – can remain safe. To facilitate effective clearing by city crews. Residents should refrain from blowing or pushing snow into streets as this hinders their workforce’s ability.
All major streets are cleared systematically and on a priority basis, beginning with arterials, high-ridership commercial streets and key local streets that serve as primary routes. Secondary routes not served by primary routes are then cleared every hour during a snow event using small plows. Furthermore, small plows may also be utilized during and directly following snow events to clear on-street bike facilities and all multi-use paths of snow debris.