If you have not noticed, we have been out treating our roadways often this winter. Over the last several weeks we have been getting a lot of calls about our salting procedures, particularly on the side roads.Salt is the most important and useful material we have to fight snow and ice and to assist safe traveling on our roadways. Salt is also a pollutant and can be a costly commodity that we try to use in responsible and cost effective ways.In basic terms we use more salt on the busier roads and hills and less on subdivision roadways; the result may be that some side roads are not always down to “bare pavement.” However, as you make your way to the main connector roads and primary roadways, they will be.There are so many factors that affect the use of salt and how we apply it: the temperature, the type of precipitation, the amount of precipitation, the time of day (day vs night), the time of year (how high sun is in the sky), previous applications, the availability of salt (might be in short supply), to name a few. We are always going to do our best to provide the safest roadways with the best practices, in environmentally friendly ways that are cost effective.As always, please slow down if you think the roadway might be slippery. For additional information on our salting methods, check out the short film that details our procedures.
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| how the squiggly lines get down on the roads before a storm arrives |
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