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Committee backs sole-source purchase to continue city’s brine deicer from Crapo Ltd.
Summary
The General Services Committee recommended council approval of a sole-source purchase from Crapo Ltd. to continue supplying the city’s extra‑coarse brine salt; staff said the material is uniquely produced at a Utah plant and has been used locally since about 2008.
The Coeur d'Alene General Services Committee on Jan. 12 voted to recommend that the full council approve a sole-source purchase of an extra‑coarse brine deicer from Crapo Ltd.
City streets staff told the committee the city has produced its own liquid deicer — "sodium chloride, so it is just regular rock salt" — since about 2008 and now sources a specially manufactured extra‑coarse brine salt…
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