Spirit Lake Refuse Control Services

About Spirit Lake Refuse Control Services

Fort Totten sits above the south shore of Devils Lake on ground that has carried a settlement around the brick barracks of the old military fort, buildings that still stand around a parade ground the wind crosses without anything to slow it down. Spirit Lake Refuse Control Services clears the roads and driveways connecting the community and the rural stretches out toward St. Michael and Woodlake, work that matters most on the mornings blowing snow erases the line between the road and the ditch beside it. The lake itself is never far below the hill here, and a south-shore winter means driveways drift shut fast on open ground, with only the fort's brick walls offering any real break from the wind for anyone close enough to stand behind them. Getting a rural road reachable again before the school bus runs or a trip into Devils Lake becomes overdue is the whole measure of the job, one gravel mile at a time. It is steady work in a small community built around a lake and a fort both older than anyone now clearing snow past them.