In Manitoba, it is considered too cold during much of the winter for
salt to help much on the highways. Nevertheless, the City of Winnipeg
tends to salt intersections and as a result we get a bit of a regular
salt bath if the weather permits - IE - if it warms up a bit and then
snows a bit.
If, I make a run to Ontario in the winter (the cottage is on Lake of the
Woods south of Kenora) then there is almost a line at the border where
the road turns white. Ontario salts the heck out of the roads. Maybe
justified as the hills and general terrain make the snow hang about more
than in Manitoba where it tends to be more open and blow off of the roads.
Randy who does not wish to buy any used cars from Ontario!
On 22/11/2011 10:51 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
The second link has amounts applied per mile And the WINNERS are:
NY
MA
VT
NH
with honorable mention to:
MI
IL is shown as a piker at 6.6, however it is a long state, and the
southern half is radiacally different than the Chicago area. Northern
IL is probably at 12, and chicagoland is probably right up there with NY
Pretty much jives with the rusty cars per capita by state.
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:59:57 -0800 (PST) Dimitri Seretakis
<dsereta...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I hate road salt. Is it true that they dont use it in Colorado?
No. When we lived there the sand that the highway trucks put on the
roads
was mixed with 10% salt.
See http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr235/017-030.pdf
and
http://www.subaruforester.org/vbulletin/f76/map-states-use-road-salt-27855/
I'm not sure of the accuracy of the last link.
Also,
Why does colorado not use salt on their roads?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081224123452AA23Uwq
That link says they use magnesium chloride, which is even worse on cars.
Other links:
www.michigan.gov/documents/ch2-deice_51438_7.pdf
http://www.koaa.com/news/study-road-salt-harming-many-urban-streams/
(from Colorado)
http://www.usroads.com/journals/p/rmj/9712/rm971202.htm
http://www.saltinstitute.org/Articles-references/References-on-salt-use/References-on-salt-use/References-for-use-of-road-salt
(even had YouTube videos of interesting situations).
Craig
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