With more than 60 inches of snow this year, will the city dump its snow in the Boston Harbor?

The short answer is ‘no,’ Mayor Michelle Wu’s office said. The city’s “snow farms” will be utilized to melt the snow accumulating across the city.

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The blizzard this week has put Boston’s snow total this winter at more than 60 inches for the first time since 2015’s “Snowmageddon.” But, what will the city do with all that snow?

With the city hit by 17 inches of snow from Monday’s blizzard and more expected this week, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said crews had removed 165 loads of snow already as of Tuesday evening, totaling 4,620 cubic yards of snow. Will Wu consider a practice of winters past: dumping snow in the Boston Harbor?…

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