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House passes road salt management bill to establish best practices and reduce salinity in waterways
Summary
House Bill 664, establishing a road salt management best‑practices guide and training to help municipalities reduce salt use while maintaining winter road safety, passed the House on Oct. 8, 2025 by a vote of 104–99. Sponsor remarks cited long‑term increases in salt use in Pennsylvania and risks to wells and waterways.
The Pennsylvania House passed House Bill 664 on Oct. 8, 2025, creating a road salt management best practices guide. The bill directs PennDOT and the Department of Environmental Protection to collaborate with experts to produce guidance and training for municipalities aimed at reducing road salt use while preserving winter road safety.
Representative Webster (Representative, Montgomery County), the bill’s sponsor, told the chamber that Pennsylvania’s road salt usage has risen steadily over 60 years and that the Commonwealth now uses “over 800,000 tons annually.” Webster said melted salt “ends up in our family wells, it ends up in our aquifers, and it ends up in our waterways where we take, you know, our drinking water supply,” and described the bill as a straightforward effort to create best management practices and training for municipalities.
Supporters framed the bill as protecting family wells, fisheries and municipal water systems by reducing salinity while maintaining safe roads. The clerk recorded final passage with yeas 104 and nays 99. The bill passed the House and will go to the Senate for consideration; the transcript does not record Senate action during this session.
