Eagle Mountain hopes for more help from state snowplows

Eagle Mountain hopes for more help from state snowplows
January 21st, 2009 @ 9:44am
By Randall Jeppesen
Talks over a lack of Utah Department of Transportation snowplows near Eagle Mountain are improving as the city and state try to find the most efficient way to keep the roads cleared.

Highway 73 is the one major road leading in and out of Eagle Mountain. When it gets pounded with snow, UDOT has only two snowplows working the big roads west of Utah Lake.

"We don't have any other snowplows to dedicate out to those roads," said UDOT Spokesperson Scott Thompson.

He says UDOT is working to find ways to clear the roads quicker. Eagle Mountain Mayor Heather Jackson had asked for a third plow.

"We're not getting the third plow," she said, "but it's not that UDOT didn't hear and isn't trying."

UDOT is adjusting the snowplow routes. It also has a salt storage area south of Saratoga Springs, which means the plows now don't have to leave the area to refill, which should help.