{"id":7859,"date":"2019-10-10T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T21:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2019-10-10T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T23:42:16","slug":"yakima-airport-receives-new-snow-removal-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/yakima-airport-receives-new-snow-removal-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima Airport Receives New Snow Removal Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Yakima Airport runway broom in action following heavy snowfall in February 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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New runway brooms that arrived the week of October 7th, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just in time for winter, Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field this week received two key pieces of snow removal equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two high-speed runway brooms\nnow in place at the Yakima Airport are designed to sweep snow off the pavement\nwith poly and wire bristles driven by two engines generating a total of 785\nhorsepower. Each machine is designed to remove up to three inches of snow per\nhour from a surface area of 2.28 million square feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiven the airport encompasses\napproximately 5.57 million square feet of asphalt, it was important to add\nthese high-capacity machines to keep up with heavy winter snowfall,\u201d said\nAirport Director Rob Peterson.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No local tax funds were spent to\nacquire these machines. The total cost was $1,148,921, with 90 percent of the\nfunds paid by the Federal Aviation Administration through a grant and the\nremaining 10 percent from the airport\u2019s Passenger Facility Charge program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese high speed runway brooms\nwill be a great addition to the airport\u2019s already robust snow removal equipment\nfleet,\u201d said Peterson. \u201cThese machines will not only help the airport combat\nthe snow, they also increase safety as aircraft operate at the Yakima Airport.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Including the new runway brooms\nadded this week, Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field now has three brooms,\nthree plows, two snowblowers and one liquid de-ice trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more about the Yakima Air\nTerminal-McAllister Field, visit https:\/\/flyykm.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just in time for winter, Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field this week received two key pieces of snow removal equipment. The two high-speed runway brooms now in place at the Yakima Airport are designed to sweep snow off the pavement with poly and wire bristles driven by two engines generating a total of 785 horsepower. Each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}