THE 37,000 road gullies in York are to be given an additional clean each year after extra money was allocated to the highways department.
An additional £20,000 will be added to the city council's budget to ensure that all the gullies along city centre and main urban routes can be cleaned twice a year.
Principal engineer Fred Isles said: "The new proposals should ensure that we are able to significantly lower the number of overflowing gullies and introduce a cost saving of between £11,500 and £17,500 by reducing the amount of reactive cleaning we have to do."
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