Well, that's one way to get rid of snow

Right now there are two frontend loaders on my block moving snow into a giant dump truck. The guy says they're either going to dump it in the river or take it to someplace downtown where they have a snow-melting machine--I can't tell which of those answers, if either, is a joke. I have to say I was a little surprised/disappointed at how much snow is left around considering how warm it is today... at least this way, they're getting rid of some of those big mountains fast.

I seem to remember seeing them dumping snow in the river on the news so, yeah, could be. The only snow-melting machine I know of is called "sun". And that seems to be doing its share of the work as well.

Emily, that's the traditional way of getting rid of large snowfalls in the city. I can remember back in the 70's and 80's, they would bring plows in, plow all the snow into large (10-12ft) mounds at the end of each block. After the snow was cleared from all the streets, sanitation would send in backhoes and dump trucks and clear out all of the piles. Streets would be cleaned in 2-3 days and snow gone within 5-7.

Stewart-

In addition to the sun and giant dump trucks headed toward the river, snow melting machines do exist as well.

The city has a few of them, so Emily wasn't lied too. ...both are legitimate options

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_melter.jpg

As seen in the photo, the red front end loader puts snow in the bin, and then water comes out just to the left of the "27".

ive yet to see a snow melter in the residential neighborhoods.. usually in south brooklyn they dump it in the water behind the old incinerator

Snow is melted and the water drained into the city storm drains, snow is no longer dumped directly into the waterways due to the large amount of other stuff that gets scooped up with it... Not sure where it was but I could hear the snowmelter btw Underhill and Washington reeaallllly early in the morning, sounds like a jet engine or something..

I always thought the U.S. dumped the snow on barges and sent it to a third world country.

your thinking of recycling, they dump the recycle electronics to the 3rd world. where it kills people and the environment, thats why i don't ever recycle electronics, over here its much safer at least its in a landfill.