Winter road salt: How much is too much for Ohio’s environment?

CLEVELAND, Ohio – When it came to clearing roads during Winter Storm Fern, some local officials said they would treat main ...

Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water – 3 tips to deice responsibly

Excess road and sidewalk salt flows into storm drains and ultimately into area streams and rivers, affecting fish and other ...
WTNH

Sodium chloride’s impact on private wells, drinking water

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Sodium chloride is a chemical used to pretreat roads before a snowstorm. According to Rick Fontana of OEM in New Haven, “It does become environmentally unfriendly.” Chlorides ...
WJFW

DNR spreads awareness about rock salt in our waterways

During the winter salt can be used to keep the roads safe but using too much can come at a price. Salt turns ice into salt ...
The New York Times

Take Water. Add Sodium Chloride. Chill and Squeeze Into Salty Ices.

The lab-created compounds — never seen before — might exist naturally on icy moons in the outer solar system. By Kenneth Chang Scientists have discovered two new forms of salty ice that probably do ...