CHESTER — Chester Highway Superintendent Charles Dazelle, speaking Monday at 4 p.m. after being at it for 33 hours straight, said the Jan. 25 storm cleanup overall went well.
“Everything went [well]. We didn’t have any calls — no accidents or medical. No calls at all. No trees down,” Dazelle said, adding, “We’re done.” He said the crew now had to go home and snowplow their own driveways.
With a crew of three, the town hired out White Wolf’s 10-wheeler to help with the cleanup, a contractor they’ve used before. He said their truck can hold more sand, as the biggest one in Chester has six wheels.
Chester has one F250, a four-wheel drive that was repaired just before the storm, and two F-550 dump trucks with sanders. He said a new F-550 is on order to replace one from 2015.
“There’s about 10 years on a pickup’s life expectancy,” he said.
He said the storm came down fast, and there was light snow on top of ice in some areas, and a couple of trucks slipped. By the end, Chester had 18 to 20 inches overall.
“All in all, it went [well]. The Select Board was happy we didn’t get any calls,” he said.
Dazelle also talked about $1.3 million the department has received in grants to engineer Johnson Hill Road and for paving and drainage to finish Blandford Road. “A lot of people use that road,” he said.
