Is Road Salt the Next Big Problem for Northern Water Utilities?

The sewerage district in Wisconsin’s capital city aims to curtail salt for roads, sidewalks and water softeners to protect drinking water and the environment.
Is Road Salt the Next Big Problem for Northern Water Utilities?
Ralph Erickson, pretreatment coordinator, shows what 90 tons of salt looks like.

Salting roads is a way of life in Midwest winters. But all that salt has to go somewhere when the snow and ice melt.

And in an area where nearly every home has a water softener, a lot of salt ends up in local streams. While some salt in the drinking water supply is fine, too...

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