A significant winter storm is expected this weekend. We want to inform Columbia residents that the Borough is watching the developing weather conditions and will communicate if and when an official Snow Emergency declaration will take place. The declaration will be posted on the borough website and announced via email and on WGAL.
During a Snow Emergency, no vehicle may operate or park on a designated Snow Emergency Route. For your convenience, we have listed the routes below.
Safety is our number one priority and we appreciate your cooperation and patience.
Columbia Borough Snow Emergency Routes:
Chestnut Street (North Second to North Ninth Street)
Lancaster Avenue (Locust to Malleable Road)
Locust Street (Front to Ninth Street)
Ninth Street (Ironville Pike to Lancaster Avenue)
North Fifth Street (Chestnut to Locust Street)
North Third Street (Locust to Cedar Street)
Columbia Spy 
Yes! Thanks Don Murphy. Great vision.
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I dunno, the river could handle it, it's not frozen over, how WGAL's front lawn??
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Another storm of the century. How often do the weather people have to be wrong before everyone stops panicking. The groundhog is correct more often than they are.
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Just what does these routes serve. Police but not anything over to EMS or QRS. Also since the fire department is only one station now where is the emergency route for them. It looks like the route above is the bus route which is not not an emergency service.
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They can't just put it in the river Joe because there is a group of people that think it's alright to throw trash in the streets. The river or the streets don't need the trash.
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Some people are blinded by their vision. Sometimes a vision is a hallucination.
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