Hawkeye Construction & Snow Removal

About Hawkeye Construction & Snow Removal

Kinnick Stadium empties out by Thanksgiving most years, and by January its parking lots sit as some of the widest open ground in Iowa City, catching wind and holding drifts with nothing to break either one. Hawkeye Construction & Snow Removal works the residential streets just beyond those lots, where the same driveways that fill with tailgate traffic in October sit under a foot of snow with nobody home to clear them until evening. The crew treats a wide lot and a narrow driveway as different problems entirely — one calls for a truck making long straight passes, the other for a blade narrow enough to fit between a mailbox and a fence post without clipping either. Residential streets near the stadium tend to freeze hard overnight, the kind of cold that keeps a morning's plowing intact through the whole next day if no more snow falls. That means a plowed driveway here often stays clear until the next storm, which matters on a block where half the households won't be home from work until after dark.