Heavy use of salt on roads spurs concerns about runoff

Comments about: Heavy use of salt on roads spurs concerns about runoff
BY MECHELE COOPER

Staff Writer

Road salt kills trees and shrubs, and it contaminates drinking-water supplies....
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Gary of Waterville, ME

Mar 2, 2008 7:16 PM

But the salt will run into the ocean and make it salty, Eric!

Eric Foster of Benton, ME

Mar 2, 2008 6:43 PM

Ok, the Atlantic Salmon spoke and said we couldn't use sand, because the little bit on the roads exceeded what your every day spring runoff and thunderstorms produce (har, tell us another!) and now we are griping about salt.

Yet again, the environMENTALists are showing anal glaucoma.

Go back to sand. Save some money, save the galaxy.

E

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Mar 2, 2008 4:23 PM

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