Winter Maintenance Program

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To learn more about winter maintenance in Fort McMurray, click here. Thanks for participating!

Please take the winter maintenance survey, and have your say on how snow is plowed and removed from streets in Fort McMurray.

This winter, the region experienced record snowfall and long periods of extremely cold temperatures, creating challenges for both winter maintenance crews and residents. The Municipality would like to thank all crews and residents for their efforts working through these challenges.

Please share your thoughts and opinions on winter maintenance operations in this year's survey.

See the Winter Maintenance Zone Timeline (2014-2022) to see how the program has expanded and improved in response to resident feedback.

To learn more about winter maintenance on roads within the region, visit rmwb.ca/wmz or rmwb.ca/snowplow.

2021-2022 Winter Maintenance Survey

CLOSED: This survey has concluded.

Winter Maintenance Zone Timeline (2014-2022)

15 October 2020

Driveway windrow clearing is added to the winter maintenance program

Windrows created by a snowplow and greater than 15 centimeters in height are cleared from the front of driveways on streets included in the Winter Maintenance Zone Program.

15 October 2019

WMZ Email Alert newsletter and WMZ Progress Map are launched

The WMZ Email Alert newsletter is sent out to all subscribers every Friday when Subzones are active or there are relevant winter maintenance updates.

The WMZ Progress Map tracks which streets have had snow removal completed (this does not include snow plowing progress, which is a separate operation from snow removal).

You can subscribe to WMZ Email Alerts and see the WMZ Progress Map at rmwb.ca/wmz.

15 October 2017

Winter Maintenance Subzone system begins and "Find Your Zone" tool is launched

The five Winter Maintenance Zones were further divided into four Subzones in response to resident feedback about the need for more on-street parking (fewer days when street-parked cars needed to be moved).

The "Find Your Zone" tool, available at rmwb.ca/wmz, allows you to search any Fort McMurray address to find out details about winter maintenance for that address.

The tool can tell you if you live on a street included in the Winter Maintenance Zone program or if you live on a Primary, Secondary or Tertiary Route. If your street is included in the Winter Maintenance Zone program, the tool will tell you what your Subzone and designated day for winter maintenance are.

15 October 2015

Winter Maintenance Zone program is launched

The program was launched to create more consistent and comprehensive winter maintenance. Crews would conduct winter maintenance in five different areas, each day of the week.

15 October 2014

Before the WMZ Program

Considerably less winter maintenance was performed on residential streets. Snow removal was started on residential streets once the centerline snow pack reached 10 cm. This resulted in one snow removal operation per winter season.