The Kenai Peninsula Borough issued a reminder this week that plowing snow from private property into local roads, ditches, and right of ways is illegal.
The Borough says this creates an obstruction hazard and sight problems for the traveling public and snow removal equipment.
They say plowing snow into the right of way creates significant additional costs and delays to road crews who have to move the snow back – a cost which is eventually transferred to the tax payer.
Along with the reminder about plowing, the Borough asks parents to keep children out of snow piles and berms along roadways.
Greg Wilkinson with the State Dept. Health detailed why.
Wilkinson: “Kids want to make forts inside them or such, and then if that snow-clearing machine comes down the street, it’s just really important that kids understand that the snow piles can be real dangerous if the machine comes along top clear them, so we just want to keep kids away from the snow berms.”