Black Hawk County, IA Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

10(2). 030 gives the County Engineer authority to set the actual clearing sequence, and the Engineer's professional judgment prevails unless clearly erroneous. unless conditions demand it. Salt, sand or other abrasives may be placed on intersections, hills and curves after plowing but are not reapplied between storms, and there is no fixed time limit after a storm for completing the sequence. Unpaved (gravel) roads are opened to one-lane traffic first, with graders and plow trucks likewise normally off the road overnight; snow is not removed at all from roads designated level B.

030(C) states the county will not clear private drives, though normal plowing may deposit snow in them, and residents may not push driveway or yard snow back onto the road or shoulder. 030(D), the county repairs or replaces only a mailbox or fence the plow itself strikes, not one damaged by snow thrown from the plow. 040 further excludes sanding or salting roads that are slick only from frost, and excludes posting extra warning signs for reduced visibility or slick conditions. This entire framework governs the county's own secondary road system; it does not set snow-emergency parking or plowing rules for streets inside Waterloo, Cedar Falls or the county's other incorporated cities, which maintain their own road systems and ordinances.