Should the Metro-Detroit area reduce the use of salt ?
Road salts known under various chemical compounds sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride,
magnesium chloride, and ferrocyanide salts) are toxic. In the USA deicing salt is considered a pollutant via National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System [[NPDES). Chloride concentrations [[salinity) in lakes across the USA have steadily increased over the past 50 years, compared a near zero concentration in the 1950s, when road salt application began upon the nations roadways.
Nearly 5 Million people live around Metro-Detroit, Michigan and another 5 Million people live around Windsor, Ontario. 10 MILLION people concentrated near Fresh Water Lakes; just in our little section of the geography…pass the salt ?
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