The sun is out and the pavement is warming up!
If you have leftover salt sitting on bare pavement, please sweep it up! Salt on bare pavement doesn’t do any work. Sweeping it up prevents it from getting blown, washed, or tracked elsewhere and ending up in our lakes, rivers, or groundwater, causing chloride pollution. Save the salt in a container to be used in the future!
In Minnesota, 68 lakes and rivers are over the state standard for chloride and 75 more are at risk. In Carver County, staff are seeing increasing trends in chloride concentrations in 19 lakes monitored. High chloride levels are toxic to fish, aquatic insects, and amphibians, and harm the aquatic ecosystem. It doesn’t take much – just one teaspoon of salt contains enough chloride to permanently pollute five gallons of water!
More information: https://www.carvercountymn.gov/…/Compon…/News/News/3045
