Snow Operations
Village of Marathon Snow Operations/Information
The Street Department works to keep roads safe and passable during ice and snow events.
The Street Department uses local and national weather forecasts to determine when to begin pre-treatment of town roads. When the forecast calls for snow, crews will begin anti-icing treatments on primary streets.
However, this cannot be done when rain is at the leading edge of a snow event. Rain dilutes the solution making it less effective.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!
It can take a lot of time and effort to clear the pavement areas on the streets of the Village. The patience of our residents is an added value to the process of quickly clearing streets and neighborhoods. Removing cars from the road during a snow event is also extremely helpful.
- Please wait to call the Street Department until at least 24 hours after the storm regarding missed streets.
Village Snow Operations
The Village of Marathon City Department of Public Works has two categories of snow operations; Primary and Secondary.
Primary Operations:
- Primary snow operations focus efforts on plowing the 17.52 miles of streets /alley (covered twice), the 7 public parking lots, nearly 1 mile of sidewalk and 9 public facilities during each snow event.
- Village plows cover the streets twice in each snow event opening streets in the first pass and widening the streets and rounding the corners at intersections in the second pass.
- This process typically results in driveways and sidewalk ends being filled twice per snow event.
- Execution of Primary snow operations is prioritized by high traffic and high impact routes throughout the Village.
Secondary Operations:
- Secondary operations focus on snow removal from designated corridors within the Village and contract trucking to the Village snow storage facility.
- The designated corridors are:
• Business District consisting of Main Street between First and Fifth Streets
• Business District Perimeter consisting of one block east and west of Main Street at First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Streets
• Market Street between Eighth and Fourth Streets
• Sixth and Seventh Streets between Main and Market - Secondary snow operations typically occur within 12 to 24 hours of the end of primary operations.
NOTE ABOUT STATE HIGHWAY 107 (MAIN ST) AND COUNTY ROADS B & NN
- Marathon County Highway Department is responsible for the plowing operations of these select roads in and at the outer edges of the Village
- Marathon County Highway Department plowing of STH 107 is conducted in the traffic lanes only resulting in placement of snow on sidewalks and in the parking lanes along Main Street.
Overnight Winter Parking
Ordinance 10.1.27(A)
All Night Parking Prohibited from November 1 through April 1. No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle or machinery, for a period of time longer than thirty (30) minutes between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., between November 1 of each year and April 1 of the following year.
Please help our snow plow drivers out by keeping in compliance with this ordinance.
Snow Emergencies
Ordinance 10.1.27(B)
Whenever circumstances require, the Village President, or Village Administrator, may declare that a state of snow emergency is deemed to exist in the Village of Marathon City. During the duration of such snow emergency, no person shall stop, park, or leave standing for a period of time exceeding thirty (30) minutes any vehicle or other machinery in any public alley or street.
Please make sure to follow our Facebook Page for updates on possible snow emergencies this winter.
Snow & Ice Removal From Sidewalks
Ordinance 6.1.6(A)
The owner, occupant or person in charge of each and every building or structure or unoccupied lot in the Village fronting or abutting any street shall clean or cause to be cleaned the sidewalk in front of or adjoining each house building or unoccupied lot as the case may be of snow or ice to the width of such sidewalk within twenty-four (24) hours from the time the snow ceased to accumulate and shall cause the same to be kept clear from ice and snow, provided that when the ice has formed on any sidewalk so that it cannot be immediately removed, the persons herein referred to shall keep the same sprinkled with salt, ashes, sawdust, or sand.
Along with sidewalks, please remember to remove any snow accumulations around fire hydrants so as to keep in accordance with Ordinance 5.3.14(F)(c).