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Our Streets Department maintains over 88 miles of roads and more than 150 cul-de-sacs.
Our first priority is to make the roads safe for the traveling public. The decision to send trucks out is made by the Director of Public Works who is in contact with the West Goshen Police Department. All trucks are sent out to their assigned areas with the instructions to first salt hills, intersections, and curves, then all other areas. Salt needs the movement of traffic to make it effective, so if it appears that your street has not yet been salted, it may be that there has not been a sufficient amount of traffic to make it effective.
When plowing, our crew makes one pass in each direction on streets and one pass into and out of cul-de-sacs.
Lastly comes the process of pushing snow back to the road's edge and cleaning out cul-de-sacs. If our crew has been working extensive hours plowing and salting, this phase of the snow
clearance may not begin until the next day so that the road crew may be sent home to rest.
To facilitate plowing, make sure to park your vehicle in your driveway when the snow begins to fall.
In the case of steep driveways, park at the mouth of the drive, but off the road. Cul-de-sacs should also be free of vehicles. If a car is parked on a roadside or cul-de-sac, we may not finish plowing that street, but return several hours or even the next day to complete the work.
If you have a problem, call the Township between 8:00 AM and 4:30 PM on weekdays.
Please leave your name, address, phone number, and the nature of problem. Calls received after 3:00 PM may not be acted upon until the next business day. On weekends and after 4:30 PM on weekdays, emergencies may be reported to the Police Department at 610-696-7400. Above all, be patient.
PennDOT clears the following streets: Boot Road, Fern Hill Road, Greenhill Road, S. High Street (Business Route 322), E. Marshall Street, Montgomery Avenue, Paoli Pike, Phoenixville Pike, Pottstown
Pike, Strasburg Road, West Chester Pike (Route 3), Westtown Road, and Routes 100, 202, and 322. Cork Circle, Derry Lane, and Cold Springs Drive are cleared by the developers.
When shoveling your driveway, leave the last six feet of your drive unshoveled until the plowing has ceased.
This unshoveled part will allow the snow being pushed by the plow to remain on the plow and not dumped into your drive. If you must shovel out your drive, clear a six foot area of the road that is directly in front of the mouth of your drive. In addition clear an area ten feet before and after the mouth of your drive, so that when the plow comes through, it will unload snow that it is pushing in the cleared area and not in the mouth of your drive.
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