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Sanitation Begins Winter Night Plow Schedule Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty recently announced that the Department of Sanitation began its Annual Night Plow Operation that enables it to respond promptly and effectively to snow and ice conditions around the clock. This season, the department will have a sufficient number of employees assigned to work the night shifts in each of the city's 59 Sanitation districts so that a trained and experienced workforce is available to operate essential snow fighting equipment on the night and early morning shifts. These two shifts are 4:00 p.m. to midnight and midnight to 8:00 a.m. During the winter, the day shift starts at 7:00 a.m The department has a front-line defense of 365 salt spreaders that are dispatched prior to the start of the impending snow to salt arterial highways and bus routes. The department has a storage capacity of 255,000 tons of rock salt, and 239,000 gallons of calcium chloride deicing solution at 36 facilities throughout the city. Once snow begins to accumulate on the city's streets and highways, approximately 2,000 plows can be mounted on various DSNY trucks in order to clear snow from the city's more than 6,000 curb miles of streets. For further information on Sanitation services, call the 3-1-1 or visit the department's web site at www.nyc.gov/sanitation.
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