Brian Boss
23:18 - 24:03
“What was different about the winter of 2025 and 2026 is we had to do it 2 times a week instead of 1 time a week. And so what that did is committed 2 out of 3 of our crews to this icing route, which gave us less flexibility to respond to other emergencies”
- Speaker
- Brian Boss
- Timestamp
- 23:18 – 24:03
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 20, 2026
From the transcript
To that end, we have what's called an icing route, where we take a truck like this, our sewer jetter truck, which has a tank of water and a high-powered jet head, and we clean 18 segments of main on a weekly basis. On a weekly basis to keep them free of ice. That's, that's a winter city recent occur— regular occurrence. What was different about the winter of 2025 and 2026 is we had to do it 2 times a week instead of 1 time a week. And so what that did is committed 2 out of 3 of our crews to this icing route, which gave us less flexibility to respond to other emergencies because we couldn't dedicate those employees to the other the other issues we were dealing with at the time, the frozen services and the frozen water main.
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