Despite half century campaign, salt continues to threaten Madison lakes, drinking water
CHRIS HUBBUCH
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City of Madison maintenance worker Duane Nedlose calibrates a salt dispenser on a city plow. Despite nearly a half-century of salt-reduction policies, Madison's lakes and groundwater continue to get saltier.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Public information officer Bryan Johnson surveys salt piles in a Madison Streets Division storage shed. To limit the amount of salt in surface and groundwater, roughly half of Madison's streets are not salted.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
By applying brine to some streets before snowstorms, the city of Madison cut road salt use by about 10% during the past decade.
When Charlie Romines took over as Madison’s superintendent of streets in 2018, the first thing then-mayor Paul Soglin wanted to talk about was how the city could use less road salt. The same thing happened the following year when Satya Rhodes-Conway took over as mayor.
City of Madison maintenance worker Duane Nedlose calibrates a salt dispenser on a city plow. Despite nearly a half-century of salt-reduction policies, Madison's lakes and groundwater continue to get saltier.
Public information officer Bryan Johnson surveys salt piles in a Madison Streets Division storage shed. To limit the amount of salt in surface and groundwater, roughly half of Madison's streets are not salted.
