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IMPROPER SNOWPLOWING CAN LEAD Flushing allows the Public Works Department to purge TO.TRAFFIC PROBLEMS rust and stagnant water from the distribution system. In addition, it allows the Department to identify hydrants in Improper plowing of driveways continues to be a prob- need of maintenance. 1 in Hugo. The piles of snow and ridges that remain ' Due to the hydrant flushing, it is inevitable that some res roadways after property owners push snow across them create a safety hazard. The snow on the roadway idents.will.receive rust-colored water that could stain can create slippery conditions, and frozen clumps of ice laundry. Please check that water coming into the house is clear before doing laundry during this time. are as hazardous as large rocks. Piles of snow act as a snow fence and create blowing and Questions regarding hydrant flushing should be directed drifting conditions that compounds the amount of snow to the Public Works Department,at(651) 429-4583. piled alongside and on roadways. Piles of snow freeze and become nearly immovable. Snowplows have been dammed when they hit compacted and frozen snow CITY AWARDED FEDERAL GRANT TO HIRE deposited on, or across, public roads. POLICE OFFICER Plowing snow onto, and across,public roads is punish- The City of Hugo has been selected to receive a$75,000 able as'a misdemeanor under Minnesota Statutes 160.27, grant from the federal government to hire another police Subd. 5. The person responsible for depositing snow on, or across, the highway may also be liable in a civil law- officer for the community. Hugo contracts with the Washington County Sheriffs Office for law enforcement suit if damage or injuries occur as a result of the action. services, so the grant will allow afourth deputy sheriff to Please do not add to the hazards of winter driving by be assigned to patrol the City. The funds will be paid to depositing or plowing snow onto, or across, public the City over a three-year period, covering about one-half streets. of the cost of the position during this time.All other associated costs will be paid for by the City. Funding for the grant comes from the Community FALL HYDRANT FLUSHING The Public Works Department will be flushing hydrants in Oriented Policing Program. The City applied for the grant earlier this year to help fund the replacement of a City of Hugo beginning Monday, September 27, 1999. sydrant flushing will take place Monday through Friday, position that was cut in 1997 due to budgetary, constraints. from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm, for approximately two weeks. ATTENTION SNOWMOBILERS In order to make snowmobiling in the community safe .-On private property with the specific written, and enjoyable, the City of Hugo has established the fol- dated, and signed permission of the property owner or lowing rules for the use of snowmobiles within City lim- person in control of the property. Such permission its: must be carried with the operator of the snowmobile at TIMES OF OPERATION: all times the vehicle is being operated on the property, unless the operator is the owner or a family member of Snowmobiles may be operated between the hours of 6:30 the owner. AM and 11:00 PM, except the hours are extended on weekends until 1:00 AM, Saturday and Sunday mornings. •On City streets, when traveling in the most right-hand lane available for automobile traffic, or as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of roadway, SPEED LIMITS: and when traveling in the same direction as Speed limits for snowmobiles are set by State law, except automobile traffic in that lane. Use of snowmobiles that no snowmobile may be operated in Hugo at a speed on City streets is only authorized when it will not in excess of 15 mph within 100 feet of any residential result in damage to the street. dwelling. • On the ditch bottom or outside slope of any drainage iNERE ALLOWED: ditch that lies within, and runs parallel to, any City- controlled public road easement. Snowmobiles may On public lands and waters under the jurisdiction of not be operated on any boulevard area where an the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of identifiable ditch is not present. Natural Resources, as permitted by law. • On the ditch bottom, or outside slope of County • On posted trails approved for such use by the Highway 8 EAST of Goodview Avenue, County Hugo City Council. Highways 4, 4A, 7, and 57.