Snow removal

D. A. Kuemmel and R. M. H2csPo-, Accident Analysis of Ice Control Operations, presented at the Third International Symposium on Snow Removal and Ice Control Technology, Minneapolis, Minn., 1992. 

Access for initial construction and maintenance is a necessary part of planning. Space should be provided for repair and replacement equipment such as cranes and forked trucks, and specialized items such as snow removal equipment, as well as access ways around doors and underground hatches. 

The cholera epidemic that reached Europe and North America in the early 1830s killed more than 20,000 people in England. It was during this epidemic that Queen Victoria s personal physician, Dr. John Snow, removed the handle from the polluted Broad Street pump in London in the first recorded, appropriate measure to prevent waterborne disease. 

I m sure you will recall the news story last month concerning the great expense incurred by the City of Frozen Lakes, MN. The engine blocks of 12 of their snow removal trucks were damaged when the overnight temperature reached -30°F. I am very pleased to tell you that I.O.N.S. has won the contract to determine why the antifreeze failed. 

Road maintenance. This will include all road repairs and snow removal. 

In Part 383, exceptions are made for certain operations including military vehicles, snow removal equipment, and firefighters. 

Normally, the first location where rust shows is toward the bottom of the car, particularly in the wheel-wells. These areas of the car encounter water (with salt as an electrolyte where snow removal is required), and the presence of water is necessary for the electrochemical reactions associated with corrosion to occur. 

Salt is used to make homemade ice cream because salt lowers the freezing point of water. This is also the reason that salt is put on roads in the northern part of the United States for snow removal and why northern harbors do not freeze when temperatures dip below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. 

The appropriate authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands shall exercise, as far as it is within their competence, and to the extent requested by the Director-General, their respective powers to ensure that the headquarters shall be supplied, on fair conditions and on equitable terms, with the necessary services including, without limitation by reason of this enumeration, electricity, water, sewerage, gas, post, telephone, telegraph, any means of communication, local transportation, drainage, collection of refuse, fire protection and snow removal from public streets. 

T. Kobayashi and M. Kumagai, Experiments of Snow Removal Based on the Use of a Blower(l)—Pressure Loss in a Horizontal Straight Pipe—, Report of the National Research Center for Disaster Prevention, No.44 (1989), pp.105-121. 

Rain and snow remove a significant fraction of Cd from the atmosphere either through the solubilization of Cd aerosols in water droplets or the washout of particles associated with precipitation events [17,39]. Concentrations of Cd in rainwater show a considerable range that is related to air mass history and proximity to anthropogenic point sources. Rainwater Cd concentrations over Europe tend to track emissions and have declined from maximum values of 0.7 pg L in the mid-1980 s to 0.1 pg in 2004 [40]. Similar Cd concentrations exist in rainwater over the North Atlantic spanning a wide range from 0.07 to 0.95 pg L [38]. In the North Pacific (37° 7°N) much lower concentrations were measured in... 

Highways. Deicing for ice and snow removal, dust control on unpaved surfaces,... 

Burtwell, M. (2001). Assessment of the Performace of Prewetted Salt for Snow Removal and Ice Control in England. Transport. Res. Record 1741, 68-74. 

Airport service equipment/fleet vehicles (i.e., snow removal, aircraft rescue and fire fighting, etc). 

Falls from snow removal on roofs, or while working in aerial lifts or on ladders... 

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