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Hall making dent as ice storm cleanup continues
Crews working 6 days a week to clear debris
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Mike Williamson operates a wood chipper Monday afternoon along Pine Valley Road in Gainesville as a crew of Hall County inmates works the roadsides cleaning up fallen trees and branches from last month’s ice storm.
Hall County is still cleaning up from the ice storm in mid-February that tore down limbs and trees, knocked out power to tens of thousands and prompted road maintenance crews to work overtime. Full-scale debris clean-up began March 2, and crews continue to work six days a week, 10 hours a day, Public Works Director Ken Rearden told the Board of Commissioners on Monday during a work session. The county has seven chipper crews and three bulk loading crews with excavators working to chop up tree limbs and remove other storm debris.