The Winter Operations Plan sets out a policy and procedural framework for ensuring that the City of Barrie continuously improves on the effective delivery of winter maintenance services and the management of road salt used in winter maintenance operations, as outlined in Environment Canada's Code of Practice for the Environmental Management of Road Salts.
The plan is meant to be dynamic, to allow the City to evaluate and phase-in any changes, new approaches, and technologies in winter maintenance activities in a fiscally sound manner. At the same time, any modifications to municipal winter maintenance activities must ensure that roadway safety is not compromised.
Objective
The City of Barrie is committed to improving winter maintenance operations while continuing to ensure public safety. The City of Barrie will optimize the use of winter maintenance materials containing chlorides on all municipal roads, sidewalks, and parking lots while striving to minimize negative impacts to the environment. City of Barrie operations staff will strive, insofar as reasonably practicable, to provide safe winter road conditions for vehicular and pedestrian traffic as set out in the level of service policies and within the resources established by the Council of the City of Barrie