Why Oh Why are there no sensible answers.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Various Degrees of Conundrum": Another example of pure HOGWASH. "Salt is used to melt snow and ice. Straight salt spread on street means no snow to remove from said street." Straight salt is put on the street in order to prevent it from icing up after you plow it. You don't put salt onto the snow when it's 6 inches deep. You plow the snow with the front of the truck and you salt the road at the back. What world do you live in? Moderate comments for this blog. Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 7 October 2013 08:55
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 O.K. Smart Ass. I'm living in your world obviously or you wouldn't be reading my blog.

You say salt doesn't get spread snow.
We know salt melts ice.
We know salt stops water from freezing into ice.
We know salt  certainly would melt snow if it came into contact with snow.
We know melted snow and ice is water.
Now you argue salt doesn't get spread on snow.
And  that  makes me from another planet.

The point in contention  is :
Why are we spending a million dollars on a treatment facility to remove
salt and other ethereal stuff from snow when there is no salt in the snow.
Where there is salt, there cannot  be snow.
Furthermore, if there is a problem dumping snow,which has obviously had no contact with
salt ,on the  protected area of the well head, why are we dumping it on the wellhead area.
Why, when winters are becoming warmer, have we  switched from using a mixture of salt and sand
to using straight salt on  primary streets and straight sand on secondary streets. At greater expense
according to consultants examining service levels.

My job is to ask questions. Staff's job is to provide the answers.

Why do we have work crews available to move snow from about one per cent of the streets in town; load it into trucks with a loader the size of a teaspoon and transport it to dump it in a place it shouldn't be, to be treated by a facility constructed under  the pavement  at a cost of a million dollars.

What are they doing when there is no snow to clear off  streets. Would the front end loader and truck  be needed,  if it wasn't being used to clear snow uncontaminated by salt off  a few streets in the town core?

Snow is currently being dumped  on a disused parking lot with a permeable surface where it melts
in the Spring thaw sinks into the ground and is filtered on its way down. the same  way all the rest of the snow  does that falls on Aurora in winter.

The previous  snow dump is  the current site of the community  gardens, flourishing very nicely thank  you very much. No harm done there to the  environment after many years  of winter snow melting in the Spring.

According  to Gordon Barnes, resident environmentalist, melted snow from our current site flowed out towards a slow-growing ginko tree in the arboretum and did no harm there either after three or four years of continuous use of  that site for dumping snow.

Now then, I may be the only one of nine people  at the Council table not satisfied with answers
provided to my questions.

It would be foolish to imagine I am the only  taxpayer in  town who doesn't recognize a boondoggle when I see one.

If I don't get satisfactory answers, I conclude there are none.