Ice storm costs Iowa more than $2 million in road maintenance
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1/18/2017
The Iowa Department of Transportation spent more than $2 million during the state’s bout with ice and sleet this week.
According to the DOT’s recently unveiled winter cost calculator, the state spent more than $2.15 million — about $1.4 million on materials, nearly $395,000 on labor and more than $337,000 on equipment — between noon Sunday and noon Tuesday.
The department applied more than 36 million pounds of salt on Iowa roads and logged 9,325 labor hours in the same time frame, according to the calculator.
Read the full article on the Cedar Rapids Gazette website.
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