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Climate committee warns excess salt use is harming Little Falls Creek and local vegetation

Friendship Heights Village Council · December 9, 2025
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Chris Nower, representing the climate and environment committee, distributed Maryland Department of the Environment guidance on winter salt and urged outreach to building managers after committee testing showed elevated chloride in Little Falls Creek.

At the Dec. 8 meeting, Chris Nower of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Environment urged the village to curb excessive sidewalk salting, warning it damages sidewalks and vegetation, harms animals’ paws and increases chloride levels in nearby Little Falls Creek and the…

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