Washington County Engineer Mitch Burdick, who is the coordinator of the situations that dealing with snow preparedness and cleanup, says they have 5 trucks and routes with no backups, so when 1 goes down, there isn’t a replacement and it alters things, such as it did when one of the trucks broke down last weekend.  They worked over 12 hours this last snow storm that dumped up to a foot of snow on many areas.  Burdick says the routes they are responsible for are county highways.  So if the road has the words “county road” and then a number, then that is what they clean.  The routes cover approximately 127 miles in Washington County.  The major highways, being Route 127, route 15, Route 177 and are covered by the State.  The other named roads in the county are handled by the townships and villages.  Resources wise, the county is running low.  Burdick says they contract through the state to get a better price on supplies, such as salt, which is delivered from the Saint Louis area when needed.  And, currently they need more salt after the past 2 large snowfalls and it is getting to be expensive.  He says as of January 7^th, when the Road & Bridge Committee met, they had spent $51,000 this winter on supplies, fuel and man-hours, which includes overtime.  In fact, he says that amount will go up, as he has to order more supplies and workers are still cleaning up.  Burdick says last winter they had 12 days of winter to deal with, whereas they have already had 15 days this winter and there is more to come.