The Dallas County Secondary Roads Department is starting to think about preparations for the first snowfall. 

County Engineer Al Miller says that they have been stocking up in materials including salt and other deicing fluids. Miller says they have purchased 1,400 tons of salt that is stored in Grimes. He says that will last the county for the whole winter. 

“On a typical year that quantity of salt will take care of the entire winter. So yeah, we’re the materials on the ground. We haven’t started outfitting our trucks yet, although, you know, that stuff’s ready to go. The plows and the and the sanders and that and the underbody blades and those kinds of things. But here in the next month or so, we’ll start outfitting trucks and getting ourselves ready.”

Miller says that this is the first year that they have been fully staffed in the Secondary Roads Department.