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Podcast: Talkin Winter Ops
Episode: Episode 136: Keep snow off the road with Snow Fence, Minnesota style
Description: The easiest snow flake to remove from the roadway is the one that never lands on it.Β Seems obvious but how to make that happen?Β On this episode weβre Talkin Winter Ops with Dan Gullickson, Minnesota DOT supervisor of their Blowing Snow Program.Β Ever since the 1880βs when the railroads first started building snow fence to protect the track and the work on snow fence design that was part of the Strategic Highway Research Program in the 1990βs, engineers have been working to refine snow fence design, materials, and earthwork configurations to manage drifting snow and keep it off the r...