Tag: salt

Can Pickle Juice Save Our Roads and Waters? Exploring Brine Use in Winter Road Maintenance

When winter grips Minnesota, icy roads pose serious safety risks. From car crashes to slowed commutes, slippery streets affect everyone’s safety and mobility. To combat slippery streets, road maintenance teams […]

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MWMO Newsletter – February 2024 – The Salt Issue 🧂

In This Issue: Stopping Over-Salting, Job Opportunities at MWMO, and Upcoming Events Read the Newsletter

Art and Science on the River: Salt

Join us for hands-on learning about impacts of salt on the Mississippi River with artists Kimberly Boustead and Annie Hejny at the MWMO.

External News

A pile of sand and a pile of traction grit on a table.

Free bags of salt alternative available for de-icing to keep salt from water

Two Minneapolis neighborhoods are teaming up to reduce the amount of salt that makes it into our waters this winter with the help of free bags of an alternative option… […]

External News

Traction grit spread out on an icy sidewalk.

Minneapolis neighborhood associations encourage residents to use less or no salt this winter

MINNEAPOLIS — As temperatures drop, ice becomes more of a problem on Minnesota roads and sidewalks. But the salt that we put down is a big pollutant of our waterways, […]

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Seeing Salt | New Artwork by Annie Irene Hejny

View artist Annie Irene Hejny's Minnesota Water Steward capstone project, featuring new artwork that addresses salt pollution in the winter.

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How to Mitigate Stubborn Sidewalk Ice in Extreme Cold Temperatures

This month’s intense cold snap has made removing ice from sidewalks and driveways trickier than usual. That’s because rock salt and other deicing products often fail to work in extreme […]

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