Price City each month sends a representative to Castle Country Radio to keep listeners posted or informed on various topics. This month brought in Price City Public Works Director, Miles Nelson who spoke on water conservation, flooding precautions, removing weeds from property and pothole issues.

We had another great year of snow pack in the mountains which will help our community during the summer months. “We got lucky two years in a row. To have another great water year, where our snowpack was around 150 percent most the season, it’s been awesome to have two good winters in a row, that’ pretty unusual for our area. Even with that advantage of having all that water, we’re asking individuals to continue to exercise conservation and keep those practices up where we get through water,” said Nelson. The city encourages residents to continue practicing their water conservation efforts throughout the upcoming summer months.

There was some concern earlier in the season when officials thought that we could see some flooding from the Spring runoff this year. “There’s no projected flooding but there’s always some isolated areas that may have challenges. So we have available our regular system of sandbags where individuals can come and get sandbags at the Public Works down on 600 South in Price. There always there in the parking lot, 24/7, if they have any problems, they need to come get sandbags, they’re ready to go,” said Nelson. It’s a wise decision that if you’ve had flooding issues in the past, to get on top of protecting your property beforehand.

With all of this moisture, comes all the unwanted greenery in yards and lots. “As a reminder to the property owners, it is their responsibility to keep the weeds clear from their own property, as well as, the right-a-way in front of their property all the way out to the edge of the asphalt, to keep things tidied up there. Some times there’s confusion on whose responsibility that is but out to the asphalt is the responsibility of the adjacent landowner,” explained Nelson. The city likes to see everyone doing their part in keeping the city attractive and inviting.

City workers have been working very hard to repair potholes around the city. “Of course, with that winter we had, again, it took its toll on roads with all the extra water of the freezing and such – the temperature fluctuating between freezing and warmer the pot holes show up again. We’ve been working hard to get those filled in this year. We start on those earlier in the Spring but we still have a few around. There are sometimes we don’t know where those are at,” said Nelson. He applauds those residents who do notify Public Works of a pothole issue in the city.