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Porter County approves salt-rationing plan, staff seeks additional $200,000 to buy more salt
Summary
County commissioners approved a highway superintendent plan to ration road salt in low-priority areas and accepted a staff request to seek roughly $200,000 in additional appropriation to buy up to the state bid maximum to avoid shortages this winter.
Porter County commissioners voted Jan. 6 to approve a plan from highway staff to ration winter road salt in lower-priority areas while seeking additional funding to expand purchases under the state bid.
Highway staff said the county already has about 3,300 tons of salt on hand but faces several months of winter weather. "What we recommend is that in certain areas, we start cutting back on a lot of…
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