[T3] Salt in Seattle?

Brian Fye bfye at canyonville.net
Sun Jan 29 15:03:37 PST 2012


In the Seattle area, it is probably beach sands... which means there is
salt already in it.  That's what they used on Whidbey Island (just NW of
Seattle) when I was a kid.  No need to add salt.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 29 Jan 2012 at 9:29, Mr Toadpipe wrote:
>
> > Given that it only snows here an average of 2 days a year it should be
> easy
> > to avoid, and I think the city has a grand total of 3 trucks anyway.  I
> was
> > under the impression that most cities used salt, I'm guessing sand is the
> > norm?
>
> Madison has always use a mixture of sand and salt. 40 years ago it
> was probably 50/50, but over the last 20 years they've been ramping
> down the percent of salt to the point that I think it's now less than
> 10%. Under certain conditions they've been experimenting with
> alternatives to salt altogether.
>
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