Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Engineer’s Office is changing the Jamestown snow removal plan for Jamestown.

Starting with the next significant snowfall, City Engineer Reed Schwartzkopf says downtown Jamestown will be plowed, with the snow pushed into ridges at the center of the road, as soon as the snow emergency routes are plowed.

This plan will remove the snow from the driving surface of the downtown streets about 12 hours earlier than under the current snow removal plan. Drivers will need to navigate around snow ridges in the center of the street during that time.

Schwartzkopf adds the schedule for blowing the snow into trucks and hauling it from the downtown streets would not change. This is commonly done during the overnight hours when there is limited downtown traffic.

The plows may need to make an additional pass through the downtown area to push late snow and snow that was shoveled from sidewalks into the streets to the ridges in the center of the street. That would occur just before the snow being loaded into trucks and hauled from the area.

The basic schedule of plowing residential areas during the day and the downtown area at night will remain in place.