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Elk Grove Village Mayor: ‘We Got Through It’

Early Snow Leaves Public Works Short On Plows

Elk Grove Village snow plow clearing streets at Leicester and Bristol in 2018. (Journal file photo)

Elk Grove Village Public Works crews managed to clear village streets of this week’s early season snowfall, but were delayed as trucks were still outfitted for leaf collection.

“We got through it,” Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson said of the Nov. 10-11 snow fight.

Johnson said converting public works trucks from leaf collection to snow plows is labor intensive, so fewer trucks were on the roads for this storm.

This week broke records for cold, according to the National Weather Service. Snow totals at one National Weather Service reporting station in Elk Grove Village recorded 3 inches over those two days, while a second weather service reporting station measured 3.8 inches. Snow totals between Nov. 10 and 11 at O’Hare Airport measured 3.4 inches.

As for cold, the National Weather Service on Tuesday said: “The low of seven degrees broke the previous record low of eight degrees set in 1986, and the high of 17 (degrees) broke the previous record cold maximum of 28 degrees set in 1995.”

Village officials posted an updated schedule for the third of four leaf collection rounds between Wednesday, Nov. 13 and Saturday, Nov. 16 for leaf collection originally scheduled for Monday, Nov. 11 and Tuesday, Nov. 12.

The last round of regularly scheduled leaf collection is set for the week of Thanksgiving.

Johnson said village officials are debating whether to conduct another round of leaf collection the week after Thanksgiving, but had not made a firm decision as of late Wednesday morning before press deadlines.

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