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Oh noes! they're out of salt and snow money!!!

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ttora4runner

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Colorado Springs, Again
Only trucks I've seen have been the ones clearing the parking lot at my apartment complex and at the store.

Up in Rexburg, ID they more or less don't really plow and the use a fine volcanic rock on the roads. No salt that I know of.
 
cruiseroutfit

cruiseroutfit

Cruizah!
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Sandy, Ut
GSL naysayers, where do you think we get salt from? The ocean?

They absolutely do use GSL salt for roadways. But they can't just back up the trucks and shovel it in. First they have to build an evaporation basin, dealing with environmental groups, property issues, etc. Then they have to pump salt water into the evaporation basin and let the sun thin off the water through solar evaporation. Then it can be moved out of the basin and further processed and stored away for distribution. Its a very commercialized process, so our governments buy the salt from companies that do the processing. There are at least 5 companies pulling salt out of the lake, at least 3 of which make salt that is or could be used on roads.

Brine (salt water) may or may not be that effective on roads, in high concentraions yes but likely much higher than the GSL (which can be as low as 5% which isn't much more than the ocean). In higher concentrations that would work but like Spork said distribution of brine would be harder than raw salt in many cases. Water is easy to come by as a mixing agent.

http://www.nasalt.com/products/deicing/highway.html
http://www.mortonsalt.com/products/road_sidewalk/index.html
http://www.akzonobel.com/salt/
 
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