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A Gritting Request
Sent to Northumberland County Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 6943057.
Road only partly gritted, have explained procedure but caller states other secondary roads have now been gritted and it is impossible for them to leave their homes safely. There is a grit bin would appear that residents have not used this yet
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Thank You for your report. We will review this report at our earliest opportunity.
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Winter Services Operations.
The Precautionary Network underpins the service and has been developed to ensure that where possible no one living within Northumberland is more than five miles from the treated network.
The precautionary network is pre-defined and comprises Primary and Secondary Routes
In built-up areas (defined as settlements with a population greater than 1000) salting will be carried out on selected parts of the network such that residents will not have more than a mile to travel to reach the salted network. In addition main bus routes will be salted, as will link roads having steep downhill approaches (1 in 10 or steeper).
In non-built-up areas salting will be carried out on routes such that residents of small villages (defined as greater than a population of 100) will not have more than five miles to travel to reach the salted network.
You can view our Priority 1 Primary Gritting Routes here: Precautionary Gritting Routes
How Salt Works
Salt comes in grain sizes of 10mm and is spread at rates between 10 to 40 grams per square metre depending upon the forecast road surface temperatures and if snow is forecast or is falling. When spread on top of ice or snow, each grain will begin to melt the surrounding ice working its way outwards. As it melts the ice, it forms a pool of salty water, which in turn helps to melt the surrounding ice and so on. Without any traffic to move the salt and salty water around and mix it into the thawing ice, the melting process can take some considerable time. Where snow falls on top of salt then it begins to melt the snow from beneath. Again, vehicular movements will speed up this process. However, the first vehicles over the snow will actually compress the snow into ice in much the same way as a snowball is created. If there is little traffic, or very slow moving traffic, then a layer of ice may form on top of the road
More information can be found at Winter Services
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This is not a secondary gritting route. A grit bin is provided for residents to use to grit the street. A 4x4 gritter may attend and grit road when it has dealt with other issues in more severe locations.
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This report has now been closed. Thank You
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Thank You for your report. We will review this report at our earliest opportunity.
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The 4x4 gritter will attend again today. Unfortunately all the larger gritters are carrying out work on the major routes. When spread on top of ice or snow, each grain will begin to melt the surrounding ice working its way outwards. As it melts the ice, it forms a pool of salty water, which in turn helps to melt the surrounding ice and so on. Without any traffic to move the salt and salty water around and mix it into the thawing ice, the melting process can take some considerable time. Where snow falls on top of salt then it begins to melt the snow from beneath. Again, vehicular movements will speed up this process. However, the first vehicles over the snow will actually compress the snow into ice in much the same way as a snowball is created. If there is little traffic, or very slow moving traffic, then a layer of ice may form on top of the road.
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Road has been regritted this afternoon. Thank you for your request this case is now closed
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This road has been gritted This report has now been closed. Thank You
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This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.