All New York City hydrants should be tagged with high-flying flags to be spotted more easily during snowstorms, a Queens lawmaker is proposing.
Councilmember Mark Weprin is reintroducing legislation this March that would require markers be placed at least three feet above hydrants.
The bill, first introduced in 2011, would help firefighters quickly pinpoint nearest hydrants that are buried in the snow, Weprin said.
It would also help homeowners locate and dig them out faster and keep motorists from accidentally parking too close.
“Hydrants get snow plowed in. There are some you can’t even see,” Weprin said. “It seems like just a common sense change.”
Six major snowstorms have slammed the city so far this winter, Mayor Bill de Blasio said during the last blast on Feb. 13.
In Central Park, Bridgeport and LaGuardia Airport, it is the third snowiest February on record, according to the National Weather Service.
The bill has never moved out of the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services, though similar laws exist in other cities like Orangetown, N.Y. and Santa Maria, Calif., Weprin said.
“I’m hoping we can make the case a little better now,” he said.
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