(Photo provided by Mayor Tom Joyce) A City of Parkersburg employee stacks recently delivered road salt Thursday inside the dome at the city’s central garage.

PARKERSBURG — Municipalities in the Mid-Ohio Valley are taking stock of their salt supplies and preparing any future winter weather.

Parkersburg Mayor Tom Joyce said the city has used approximately 972 tons of road salt in response to the recent snow events and that city public works personnel have logged 562 hours of overtime since early January.

He applauded the work of Public Works Director Everett Shears and JD Karcher, street cleaning, snow removal and sign shop superintendent for the city, for their preparation and planning. He said their efforts, and that of the employees in the various public works departments, have made the response to these events both efficient and effective.

“Those fellas had some long hours in the trucks, and we remain ready for the remainder of the winter season,” Joyce said. “Shears reported to me that the city currently has 650 Tons remaining in our salt dome and another 400 tons that has been ordered.”

Belpre Mayor Suzan Abdella said the city has had to do some repairs on its trucks due to the wear and tear of their efforts to clear the roads after recent snow falls but said she felt things went well.

(Photo by Evan Bevins) Traffic rolls by ice and snow along Fifth Street in Parkersburg Thursday.

“Overall, we did really good,” Abdella said.

She said the city is calculating how much salt was used and how much it has left but said there aren’t concerns for those levels.

“We have a very strong supply of salt,” Abdella said. “None of the guys (at the transportation department) have mentioned any concerns about that.”

Vienna Mayor Chad Emerick said he worked with Public Works Director Craig Metz and Park Department Director Steve Black to come up with a plan before the snow arrived.

“We were very well prepared,” Emerick said.

(Photo by Evan Bevins) Traffic rolls by ice and snow along Fifth Street in Parkersburg Thursday.

He said the group worked to come up with a plan to clear the primary roads, the secondary roads and, “the little roads that aren’t really roads.”

Emerick said he didn’t know exactly how much salt the city used but that he wasn’t worried about their supply. He said the city uses a mixture of sand and salt to help break up ice on the roads.

“It works very well,” Emerick said. “It helps to break up the ice and salt and gives motorist more traction on the roads.”

He said he hadn’t heard of any inclement weather on the way but said Vienna would be ready for it when and if it did arrive.

Marietta Mayor Josh Schlicher asked for patience from the community as the city still works to clear off secondary and rural roads and put salt down on them. He said it can take up to five days after a snow storm to get to some of the less traveled areas. He said the city tries to get to the more high risk areas first such as bridges, hills and hospital zones but their trucks would make it everywhere.

(Photo provided by Mayor Tom Joyce) A City of Parkersburg employee stacks recently delivered road salt Thursday inside the dome at the city’s central garage.

“Just give us time to get out there and get it done,” Schlicher said.

He said before the snow the city had 600 tons of salt in its stores and 300 tons offsite. He said Marietta also utilizes a salt and sand mixture to help with ice on the roadways. He said he didn’t know how much was used this time to help clear roads but that the city was ready for any future snows.

“We’re well prepared,” Schlicher said. “(If it snows) we’re going to be on it, and stay on it.”

(Photo by Evan Bevins) Vehicles travel by plowed ice and snow along Washington Boulevard in Belpre Thursday.

(Photo by Evan Bevins) Salt for treating roads is piled under a cover at the Ohio Department of Transportation District 10’s Belpre outpost Thursday.