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Date:         Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:33:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
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From:         Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Do they use salt on the roads out there (Boulder, CO)
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>>> Do they use salt on the roads out there (Boulder, CO)  in the winter?
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> nope.   just sand.    we keep all the salt here to ourselves in the northeast
> :<)
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> chris


Years ago, just sand.  Then salt, too.  But for the last few
years, a sol'n of magnesium chloride and other chemicals.
http://www.ci.boulder.co.us/clerk/WIP/2002/10-24-02/item4c_1.pdf
Colorado DOT uses salts from the Great Salt Lake on state roads--
still mostly mag chloride, I believe:
http://www.dot.state.co.us/TravelInfo/DeicerFactSheet.pdf


                        Richard A Jones
                        Boulder, Colorado
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