Maintaining the safety of their homes during winter can be challenging for homeowners. Attempting to clear snow away on your own can be dangerous and could result in injuries to yourself and others.
Many homeowners in Naperville rely on Naperville Anti-Icing Applications for professional snow removal services. Anti-icing is a proactive approach to snow removal that involves spraying lines of liquid chemical on pavement before an impending storm hits, making it more cost-effective and environmentally friendly than traditional deicing practices.
Cost-Effective
The City of Naperville uses anti-icing applications to help keep snow and ice from adhering to pavement prior to an approaching storm. Applying these chemicals expedites snowmelt rates while cutting clean-up costs. Plus, less salt needs be used in deicing efforts which helps lower operating and labor expenses; additionally anti-icing liquids remain on surfaces longer to reduce wastefulness.
Chloride runoff from road surfaces entering waterways can have detrimental impacts on wildlife and water quality, so the city has implemented pre-wetting and anti-icing measures in order to limit how much chlorides reach our waters.
Naperville City Hall has implemented a more sustainable park maintenance strategy, using non-toxic materials to care for our parks and play equipment based on recommendations by “Non-Toxic Naperville,” a resident group. Sign up now to get Naper Notify notifications delivered directly to your email, text messages or smart device alerts about events that matter in Naperville!
Environmentally-Friendly
The Village of Naperville utilizes anti-icing as a preventative measure against snowstorms to decrease salt consumption, labor hours and overtime pay for crew members. Furthermore, anti-icing mitigates environmental pollution caused by chlorides washing off roads and parking lots into local rivers and streams where they pollute freshwater fish populations and endanger aquatic insects.
Anti-icing techniques offer an eco-friendly alternative to deicing techniques used after storms that involve using large quantities of rock salt to melt ice; anti-icing applications only utilize liquid deicing solutions, thus minimizing environmental pollution while helping avoid slippery roads that result in police callouts and traffic accidents.
At the turn of the century, Naperville was experiencing economic prosperity with sawmills producing lumber to support the community and grist mills manufacturing flour for both personal use and sale commercially; surplus grain was hauled via Plank Road railroad to Chicago to be sold off as surplus grain. But its first settlers endured hardship.
Prevents Slippery Surfaces
Heavy snowfall can present both residents and motorists with serious dangers, from losing control of their cars to falling on sidewalks. Hiring professional snow removal services can provide your property with fast and effective de-icing services to avoid such events from taking place.
Instead of using harmful salt to deice roads, anti-icing uses liquid chemicals that prevent ice from bonding to pavement. This strategy uses about one quarter less salt and works much faster.
The City of Naperville prioritizes plowing arterial and main streets first. Sidewalks, cul-de-sacs and areas around fire hydrants and utility meters are then cleared. Do not deposit snow piles onto street or sidewalk surfaces as this creates unsafe walking conditions for pedestrians as per City code; doing so could also lead to flooding as well as damage being done to infrastructure such as curbs, edges or pavement surfaces.
Time-Saving
Anti-icing applications offer an alternative approach to traditional deicing strategies, which require vast quantities of salt and labor after every storm to break up ice bonds between pavement and snow, such as deicers. By applying deicing chemicals prior to snowfall occurring, less material needs to be used later for clean-up purposes – which saves both time and overtime costs! Furthermore, as this solution can be completed quickly during regular working hours so no overtime costs need to be incurred either way.
Anti-icing provides not only cost and time savings but is also environmentally-friendly due to using less salt than traditional deicing methods and spraying directly onto streets and parking lots, rather than spreading in waterways like salt can. Naperville is proud of being at the forefront of this innovative winter maintenance technique! With such many advantages at hand, Naperville stands as an innovator when it comes to winter maintenance solutions!