Camden County Prepares For Weekend Snow Storm

The Camden County Department of Public Works has begun to prepare the county’s roads ahead of a winter storm expected to strike the region this weekend.

“Our CCDPW crews have been checking the plows and loading the salt trucks while continuing to monitor the latest weather forecasts,” Freeholder Susan Shin Angulo, liaison to the CCDPW, said on Friday. “Even though we aren’t expecting the first snowflakes to fall until later tomorrow, our crews have been hard at work to keep traffic moving in Camden County.”

Colder air moving into the region is setting the stage for periods of snow to start Saturday evening. Most of the snow should be light in intensity, but periods of moderate snowfall cannot be ruled out before light flurries takeover overnight.

On Sunday morning, a coastal low nearby will likely cause the snow to linger longer through the morning than originally forecast. Between 1” and 2” of accumulation are expected to fall on the region over the duration of the storm, with the higher snow totals remaining to the south.

Camden County has more than 100 pieces of equipment ready to keep county roadways passable. When the weather becomes treacherous, personnel will be dispatched to 12 winter maintenance districts to salt and plow 1,200 lane miles of roadways across Camden County. The county’s response plan calls for crews to be dispatched only to the zones where they are needed.

“If you don’t have to travel, please stay off the roads to give our crews the ability to effectively do their job. Anyone on the roadways during the storm should be prepared to encounter slick road conditions. Always leave at least six car lengths behind our DPW vehicles while they work, and move any cars off the street and into a driveway while we continue our operations,” Shin Angulo said. “Remember that it is illegal in New Jersey to plow or shovel snow from private property into roadways.”

• PSE&G: 1-800-436-PSEG (7734)
• PSEG website: http://pseg.com/home/customer_service/outage_info/index.jsp
• Atlantic City Electric: 1-800-833-7476
• Atlantic City Electric website: http://www.atlanticcityelectric.com/home/
• South Jersey Gas: 1-800-582-7060
• South Jersey Gas website: http://southjerseygas.com/

As always, residents should use 911 for emergencies only. Anyone who sees a problem on a county road should call the county’s 24-hour hotline at 856=566-2980 to report it to DPW.

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