"Airport's snow removal need is phenomenal task"

Friday, December 9, 2005

Airport's snow removal need is phenomenal task
The Idaho Mountain Express and Guide


Snowed-in homeowners laboriously clearing their driveways with blowers-cry
your eyes out. 

Friedman Memorial Airport's two main, giant snow plows-one capable of
handling 1,500 tons per hour, the other 3,500 tons-cleared an estimated
5,000 tons of snow per hour from the field's 135 acres of pavement during
last week's heavy fall. 

Airport Manager Rick Baird and operations manager Pete Kramer reported to
the Airport Authority Tuesday night that snow stopped falling around 3 a.m.
Friday, Dec. 2, and by shortly after 1 p.m. the airport was open. 

Baird told the board the snow plowing is continuous, and that although plows
are dealing with as little as 2 inches of accumulated snowfall, the total
removed becomes several thousand tons as plows move along the runway and
taxiways.


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