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Milwaukee County DOT receives first Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting Award
The Salt Institute presented a Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting Award to Milwaukee County’s Department of Transportation Highway Division for excellence in environmental consciousness and effective management in the storage of winter road salt, CBS 58 WDJT-Milwaukee reports. This is the agency’s first time receiving the award and it joined 86 other transportation facilities in the […]
February 16, 2017
Roadbuilding
Salt Institute honors 87 transportation facilities with Safe & Sustainable Snowfighting awards
The Salt Institute has presented its Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting award to 87 transportation facilities in the U.S. and Canada. The award recognizes “environmental consciousness and effective management in the storage of winter road salt.” The group says roughly 26 million tons of deicing salt was applied to roadways in the U.S. last year, citing […]
February 14, 2017
Roadbuilding
Applications and Innovations
The Winter Service Committee of the World Road Association (also known as PIARC) has been examining how to bring sustainability into the winter maintenance process.
February 1, 2011
Roadbuilding
U.S. Geological Survey Report: Glacial Aquifer System, Northern United States
Abstract (from http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5086/) A study of chloride in groundwater and surface water (Groundwater and Surface Water in Areas Underlain by the Glacial Aquifer System, Northern United States, by John R. Mullaney, David L. Lorenz, and Alan D. Arntson, click here.) was conducted for the glacial aquifer system of the northern United States in forested, agricultural, […]
October 1, 2009
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