Winnipeg hopes 18-metre-high, dirt-covered snowpile will melt before winter strikes again

It will take a handful of bulldozers and a few more weeks of warm weather, but City of Winnipeg staff are confident they can take a dent out of an 18-metre snowpile that has stubbornly refused to melt before winter threatens to once again overwhelm the city’s snow-dumping sites.

Jim Berezowsky, the manager of street maintenance with the municipality, said one of the harshest winters witnessed in a century led to the remarkable pile-up. To make matters worse, a cool spring and a reluctant summer slowed the annual melt.