Road Salt: Good For Icy Roads, Bad For Nearby Waterways




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Summary: Here in the north country, we spread a lot of salt on our roadways to melt the ice that causes hazardous winter driving conditions. But that salt has to go somewhere. Flora Krivak-Tetley, a PhD student in Biology at Dartmouth College, is part of a group of researchers with the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network that has been taking a look at how salt is affecting waterbodies from Maine to the Midwest. She shared the findings with Vermont Edition . Krivak-Tetley explains that in areas