03/02/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/02/2021 15:40
National Grid Restores Power to 98 Percent of Upstate New York Customers Impacted by Damaging Wind Storm
National Grid Restores Power to 98 Percent of Upstate New York Customers Impacted by Damaging Wind Storm
Mar 02, 2021 - 4:40 PM
Contact: Patrick Stella 518-433-3838
National Grid s field force has restored power to 98 percent of the nearly 71,000 upstate New York customers impacted by the severe wind storm that caused significant and widespread damage across the region overnight. More than 2,700 tree, line and service personnel have been working through challenging weather conditions to remove uprooted trees, tree limbs, downed wires and other hazards so that power could be restored. Hardest hit areas include Albany, Fulton, Oneida, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Warren counties
Those piles of snow? They aren t clean
Where snow is put to melt matters, as it is contaminated with salt, gas and oil
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ALBANY After the Capital Region saw a historic amount of snowfall last week, snow plows, trucks, and crews worked tirelessly and are still working to remove the snow from the streets.
But all of that snow doesn’t just disappear - and where it gets piled up to melt matters because the runoff from snow melt isn’t clean. Snow can often contain salt and other pollutants like gasoline and oil from the roads.
The city of Albany, and state agencies, used to liberally dump snow in the Hudson River. But the Environmental Protection Agency 30 years ago began to realize what contaminants were contained within it, and established regulations meant to curtail snow dumping. Snow removed from streets within the City of Albany now gets piled at a vacant lot in the Port of Albany, the city s chosen spot for the last several years.
Dec 17, 2020 Albany, Washington and Saratoga Counties declared states of emergency following the first big winter storm of the season. Parts of northern New York received more than two feet of snow by Thursday morning.
The snow buried a backyard BBQ grill on a porch in Queensbury. Photo: Betty Little
Washington County s Board of Supervisors announced the closure of all county facilities and issued a travel advisory to residents to stay off the roads as much as possible. Warren County said it would close its municipal building and Warren County Airport for the day, and reschedule all DMV appointments. [Department of Public Works] Superintendent Kevin Hajos asks that the public stay off roads in the areas of southern Warren County that have seen the heaviest snow, the County shared on Facebook.