ABOUT 60 per cent of the council’s grit stocks have been used so far this winter.
It has dumped 5,800 tonnes on roads and footpaths since November, and 3,750 tonnes remain at the council’s two salt domes at Smithies and Penistone.
Head of the council’s gritting operations, John Graham, said: “We have enough stock to see us through a reasonably prolonged period of snow but if the intensity was the same as the last period then we would be looking to replenish our stocks from government supplies.”
Under extreme weather when grit stocks run low nationally, the government can have the say where grit is sent to.
