Ilsur Metshin: “We managed to remove snow and debris garbage on holidays and weekends”

Due to the snowy winter, the municipal snow melting points operate with a fourfold overload. In January, 75 thousand tons of snow were moved to the points, and since the beginning of winter 450 thousand tons of snow have been removed. Road services worked around the clock on holidays and weekends. On average, 490 snow removal vehicles were involved in cleaning roads per day. Employees of housing and utilities services enterprises were involved as well. Over the holidays, over 160 thousand cubic meters of solid municipal garbage were removed from the yards. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, appreciated the work of public utilities and road services during the holidays.

“In the beginning of January, almost 30% of the monthly snowfall rate fell, but municipal organizations managed to cope with it and didn’t allow the collapse. There are some complaints on sidewalk cleaning. In general, property management companies and contractors coped with the task of removing snow and garbage on holidays and weekends,”- the head of the city noted today during a visit to the snow melting unit on Nesmelova street.

According to Igor Kulyazhev, Deputy head of the Executive Committee, this winter turned out to be even snowy. “Contractors are working in an enhanced mode for snow removal. There is a four–fold overload at snow melting points, which is why workers do not have time to drown snow, snow piles form at the station. But, they are coping with the situation,”- he said.

During the New Year holidays, 490 cleaning vehicle were involved every day. In total, about 450 thousand tons of snow have been removed since the beginning of the winter season, and 34 thousand tons of deicing materials have been used. Snow is transported to 8 stationary snow melting points, which have 14 chambers. Thanks to the opening of a new station on Portovaya Street and a new chamber on Nesmelova street productivity of all stations increased from 6.3 thousand tons to 8 thousand tons per day.

The point on Nesmelova street was reconstructed and launched this winter. There are two chambers on the site, each of which melts 574 tons of snow per day.

Since the beginning of the winter season, 386 thousand tons of snow have been accepted at snow melting points. The volumes are comparable to those of the previous season, but more than 2 times the amount of snow received during the same period in 2021. In addition, along with the snow, garbage and sand, which is deposited in the chambers, will be moved to the snow melting points. During the current season, 1,600 cubic meters of garbage were removed and disposed of.

From December 30 to January 8, 160 thousand cubic meters of solid garbage were removed from the territory of multi-apartment and individual residential buildings. At the same time, the number of complaints about garbage collection during the New Year holidays decreased by more than four times compared to 2023.