Thank you for posting this! My husband, my son and I were just sitting around chatting and random thought of “how do they manage all the snow in NYC?” This was so fascinating! Thanks for taking the time to film this!

When I was a kid growing up in Delaware County outside of Philly, the city was dumping snow into the Delaware River after the Blizzard of 1977(??). My recollection is that EPA stepped in because of all the other things getting mixed up in the snow (oil, salt, trash, etc.) and polluting the river worse than it was. I am guessing that if it at least goes through the sewer system it will get some form of treatment prior to discharge into the Hudson. Interesting video. I wondered what they were doing with all that snow.

This is really cool !! Stay warm JJ plz

I liked it and think it's very cool video thank you for sharing this

Never seen that before 😊 love your videos 🤘🏼

The reason they do it like this compared to just dumping it in the river is because you’ll be surprised to what kind of debris ends up in the snow melter. There’s a screen inside that catches the items. They have to shut down once and a while to clean it out.

Wow! Lot of snow! Great job SDNY!

I’m amazed that the city of New York purchased such an undersized unit. There are much larger systems that allow for quicker melting. But, more importantly, broader dump bins means that the front loader can easily and quickly process the snow ❄️.

Thank you very much love your videos

Very interesting machines

Awesome Video Buddy I love Your Snow Removal Videos!!

Very interesting. Thanks John for giving us a look at large city snow removal.

Very interesting….thank you JJ!

THANK YOU,A TON ! I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WOULD NEED THAT MACHINE OR NOT . SO COOL ! MUCH APPRECIATED !🇺🇸

Seems like a slow operation...by the time there done spring will be here.

Thanks John. Interesting

Fascinating, thanks for taking the time to show this to us. Hope you’re well JJ

Thank you for the video, it was so informative and interesting! Love your videos!

Feel free to pin this if you like. None of the surface water goes into the river without treatment (snow is surface water). Surface water has a lot of contaminants (just think of how much oil you see walking across the street), brake dust, coolant, rubber, heavy metals from catalytic converters, carbon from any combustion process. Snow removal has salts and magnesium chlorides in addition to the oil. This decision is not some sort of nanny state tree hugging operation. Poison the water it poisons the fishing industry. If it doesn't kill the fish, it poisons anything that eats the fish. Not to mention what it does to the micro organisms. The loader operator is not inefficient or incompetent. The machines can only process so much snow an hour. Dumping faster does nothing to increase the melt rate. It actually slows it down. In between loads it is recovering heat. There are larger machines with higher melt rates but getting them deployed in NYC would be problematic.

Thanks for the video !

Great video jj

i've seen dumps into quarrys, ravines, even built up mountains but this is the first melting i've seen

amazing job on the snow

Very interesting

I agree that’s a different story and way of handling the snow. Be better just one site to dispose of the melt. Thanks for vision.

That's some SERIOUS amount of snow to shift and melt.🥶 Stay well and warm!

That is why I live in Florida. We shovel sun shine 🌞🌞🌞🌞

WOW that absolutely the best views of New York city John mate ha ha ha, talk about mount everest on the street's, no kid's playing on the mountain , 😠😆.

Nice work!!

I never seen this in the Bronx...... That's very cool.....

That was very interesting I’m sure this must save a lot of time and material over having to truck all that to some dumping area. I wonder if the storm sewers run through a treatment plant before the water is discharged Thanks very much for this !

very Nice

Thank you

Very informative video --- Debbie & Tiffany --- but---where is the RAC --- lol

I thought they used to dump it in the river. Thanks for the very interesting video! Stay safe and stay healthy!

Toronto Canada does the same thing, with much larger melters. Problem is, not enough melters, so now they are building GIGANTIC mountains of snow that will probably take until July to melt LOL

Interesting , but if they build a dumping spot connected to the river and separate the debris it will be a lot cheaper i guess, nice video John.

I've never seen it done that way interesting

Very nice seen those used before turns it into running water

That's TONS & TONS of snow! Litterly tons as in weight lol bit yeah..... here in MO we just wait till it melts.

That is so cool! I don’t think they have that in Michigan!

Wow thanks for filming. How does the melting machine work?? That loader driver is not very good. Way too slow just dawdling along.

When diesel fuel & engines are stopped by 2030-2050, I don't think this can be done with batteries. They will have to use electric power for heat.

When i worked at Logan airport decades ago. They used melters that were permanent. For parking garages and roadways

Really wondering why they didn’t move the small yellow front-end loader to get it out of the way of the big guy? Interesting video thank you!

That melting unit is made in Nova Scotia Canada.

Nice video JJ. Question the other videos has you in a white car. Where's Squad 99

You mentioned dumping into the river. Well that’s exactly what they used to do. You can see how dirty that snow is. So now at least some treatment will be applied for the waste water before being released to the environment.

What I’m curious about is what do they use to melt the snow,propane?

I wonder what manufacturer makes the melter

Never seen that before, does the sewer go out to the river?

Interesting....How does this fall under department of sanitation and not transportation?

Tree huggers stopped the dumping snow in the river.

Better yet, drive to jersey and dump in Hoboken, they’ll never tell the difference

In all my years of living I ain't never seen one of those machines being used for snow removal in New York City. Our winters are not that serious, this is something you'd see UPSTATE in Buffalo NY or Syracuse.. not here. That is amazing but old man winter ain't gonna be happy 😕 lol

OMG the operator moves so slow. Just dump it in the river.

The way that this operation is set-up is not very efficient! The loader should be able to get a bucket and backup turn 90 deg go straight to dump.

I was thinking the same thing why nit just dump it into the river. Looks like it takes forever to melt all of that snow. Seems inefficient and a waste of taxpayer money to buy the melter and run it, the front loader, fuel, and the trucking

South Ferry?

why not put it in the river. save lotta money

Very expensive to purchase and very expensive to run…

very inefficient . maybe by spring they would have done.i live in alaska the state dot up here is the worst organization ive seen do what these guys do let the cars pack down.less work.

I am from Montreal. King city of snow removal, above ground 2x sized football field snow dumpsites and direct inground water treated dump sites. Look up on youtube. Hell no fkn way would we go through such a process. We would never finish. That loader driver is workin wayyyyyyyy to slow for that melter. Could work faster for tax payers.

Tedious

Better off just dumping in river