Hailed as a pet-friendly alternative to road salt, calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) has been around since the 1970s and was ...

Salt is essential to keeping our roads safe during snowy, cold weather, but our use of the chemical takes a lofty environmental toll — road salt can contaminate drinking water, endanger wildlife ...

Road salt is sodium chloride, which melts snow even when temperatures are in the low 20s. Sometimes potassium chloride or magnesium chloride is used instead of road salt, but they cost more money and ...

Road crews sometimes add calcium chloride or magnesium chloride to the salt to lower the temperature at which it’ll work. They tell us that those additives can help if the temperatures get into ...

While there are more environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional road salt, like calcium chloride and magnesium chloride, their higher cost—three times that of traditional salt ...

How road salt prevents slippery street conditions. ... Magnesium chloride is more expensive to spread on the roads though because it takes twice as much salt to cover the streets.

Shawnee road crews more concerned with frigid temps than snow. When temperatures dip below 15, salt is no longer effective on roads. But Shawnee road crews have another option that can help.

Road salt/brine mixtures become less effective in extreme cold temperatures. (Federal Highway Administration) Water freezes at 32°, but the colder it gets, the more difficult it is to get salt to ...

When a major ice storm was closing in on Portland in 2022, PBOT and ODOT both told KGW that they would have salt ready to deploy along specific routes, along with magnesium chloride deicer and sand.

Hailed as a pet-friendly alternative to road salt, calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) has been around since the 1970s and was developed by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration.