Seasonal Innovative Solutions

About Seasonal Innovative Solutions

Down by Lock and Dam No. 11, the barge traffic that runs the Mississippi all summer goes quiet by December, and the industrial lots along that stretch of riverfront need clearing just as much as anywhere else in Dubuque once the barges stop moving and the snow starts piling instead. Seasonal Innovative Solutions works those riverfront properties alongside residential streets across town, plowing driveways and lots and running de-icer against the damp cold that river-adjacent ground holds onto longer than the bluffs above it do. Walkways get cleared to bare concrete rather than just pushed aside, since a half-cleared sidewalk along the river can ice over fast once the temperature drops after sunset. The company reads each system as it comes through — a fast Canadian front some weeks, a slower soaking snow off the river valley other times — and adjusts the plowing order accordingly. It's steady work along a working river town's edge, cleared one lot and one driveway at a time.