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Committee discusses salt-reduction referral; operations manager says city reduced salt use to ~200 lb/lanemile
Summary
The committee reviewed a referral from the Water Resources Management Commission asking the city to explore reduced salt application rates, use of sand/salt on residential streets and making sand/salt available for resident pickup. Operations manager Brad Hopwood said annual average application has fallen from 350–400 lb/lane-mile to about 200 and that the city is calibrating spreaders multiple times per season; the committee asked staff to continue study and expand outreach to businesses and residents.
The Public Works Committee discussed a referral from the Water Resources Management Commission asking staff to study the operational, cost and environmental implications of reduced roadway salt use and related measures.
Operations manager Brad Hopwood reported the city’s average salt application per lane-mile dropped from roughly 350–400 lb in 2017 to about 200 lb recently. He…
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