Historic Baltimore snowstorm cleanup costs still piling up
Tuesday Mar 8th, 2016
As criticism mounted over unplowed streets following the biggest snowfall in Baltimore's history in January, officials touted the industrial snow-melters they had rented to eradicate the mountains of snow piled around the city.
Days later, they realized the machines were burning 100 gallons of diesel fuel per hour and costing taxpayers $250,000 a day, transportation director William Johnson said.
As a cost-saving measure, he said, the melters were turned off. The snow would have to melt on its own.
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