14,500 TONNES OF SALT IN STOCK FOR WINTER

Some 14,500 tonnes of salt is stockpiled ready for the winter.
Residents are being reassured that the council is prepared in case of ice and snow.
A new salt barn was completed in Cross Hands the end of last year with a storage capacity of 2,500 tonnes.
This additional resource has ensured the council achieves the Welsh Government’s recommended resilience levels required to treat its primary gritting routes.
A fleet of 17 gritter lorries treat around a third of the 3,526 kilometres of roads in the county within three hours of a bad weather warning.
Roads are gritted according to priority and the first to be treated are trunk roads and principal routes including roads leading to hospitals, ambulance stations, fire stations, railway stations and bus garages, important bus routes, slip roads, and known trouble spots.
Executive Board Member for the Environment Cllr Hazel Evans said: “Although we don’t yet know what the winter will bring, residents can be reassured that we do all we can to keep our roads as safe as possible.
“Staff are on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week during throughout the year.”
To see a map of the priority gritting routes in the county, go to i-Local and click on Travel, Roads and Parking and then select Gritting Routes.