Kaysville City Public Works is dedicated to keeping the roads safe during the winter season. We strive to remove snow and ice from our roads as quickly and safely as possible to maintain a safe flow of traffic throughout the city. Emphasis is also placed on ensuring emergency services can be provided throughout the city. Our crews will clear snow from primary roads first. This is so the streets with the most amount of regular and emergency traffic are as safe as possible.
What Residents Can Do to Help
- Park all vehicles, trailers and boats off of the streets. Ridges of snow around vehicles parked on streets will freeze and can prevent or slow down future snow removal. It could also potentially cause accidents when a vehicle hits them. Kaysville City Ordinance restricts the parking of any vehicle in the street right-of-way between midnight and 6 a.m. from November 1st to the last day of February.
- Clear your sidewalks as soon as possible. Snow removal on sidewalks is required to be done within 24 hours of any snow fall event.
- If there is a fire hydrant near your house, clear the snow around it. Also clear a path from the hydrant to the street.
- Push snow shoved into driveways by snow plows into the area between your sidewalk and curb; NOT into the street. Snow pushed back into the street could freeze and become hidden by new snow, which could cause vehicles to slide out of control.
- Aim snowblowers into front yards away from sidewalks and street. Snow blown into the street could freeze and become slick.
- Don't crowd snowplows. Give them plenty of room, don't tailgate or stop too close behind them. If you find yourself behind a snow plow, stay behind it or use extreme caution when passing. The road behind a snowplow will be safer to drive on.
- Slow down for wet, snowy or icy conditions; when visibility is poor, or when conditions are changing. Allow additional room between your vehicle and others. Drive defensively and cautiously.