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Birmingham public services proposes liquid pretreatment and AI tools to cut rock-salt use
Summary
Public Services proposed investing about $290,000 in tanks, brine formulators, truck sprayers and cameras/AI to expand liquid pretreatment citywide; staff said the approach could reduce rock-salt use by 30'50% and lessen corrosive damage to infrastructure and green space.
City public-services staff proposed a multi-component upgrade to winter operations that would allow wider use of liquid de-icing and AI-enabled monitoring to reduce rock-salt use and improve service.
Charles Marcus, manager of public services, told commissioners the department currently pretreats major roads with salt brine and salts intersections on secondary roads; the…
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