Denver to activate residential plows for November snowstorm

DENVER — The City of Denver will active its residential plows for the storm expected to drop up to a foot of snow on parts of the Denver metro area.

The city’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure said residential plows will activate at midnight and will run two 12-hour shifts. The city activates residential plows when enough snow has fallen that the smaller plows can be helpful in clearing a path for drivers to get to main streets. 

The residential plows will take one pass down the center of each street. They don’t carry deicer and won’t plow down to the pavement, but instead remove the top few inches of snow. 

Plow drivers will also continue to clear main streets and drop deicing materials throughout the storm, DOTI said.

Denver has about 70 large plows that covers about 2,050 lane miles of main streets and around schools, according to the DOTI website.

To see where those plows are, visit the city’s plow tracker website.

Heavy, wet snow will pile up to well over a foot of additional accumulation south and east of Denver, while the city itself could see a foot of snow between Friday and Saturday morning.

The snow moved in Friday morning, with 1-2 inch per hour snow rates possible. It’ll continue well into Friday night and early Saturday morning. A Winter Storm Warning and Weather Impact Day is in place for both today and tomorrow around the metro area.

Scattered power outages and downed branches are possible with the heavy, wet snow that’ll fall in the metro area, especially in areas that see the heaviest snowfall. 

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