When there is a forecast for snow or ice in Worcestershire, we may decide to treat our gritting network. We use rock salt to grit 2,371km of roads across the county. As a priority, we treat our Primary Network first which represents 30% of the road network in Worcestershire. The Secondary Network is treated in severe weather conditions and only after the Primary Network has been successfully treated.

In 2022 to 2023, we carried out 54 grits in total and used 5320 tonnes of rock salt. A slight reduction on previous years due to the milder wetter winter: