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Title:

WATER POLLUTION AND ASSOCIATED EFFECTS FROM STREET SALTING (ABRIDGMENT)

Accession Number:

00265351

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/03611981

Abstract:

The high rate of use of sodium chloride and calcium chloride for deicing, as well as poor storage and handling, have caused serious water pollution problems. There has also been widespread damage to roadside soils, vegetation, and trees. The EPA has initiated 4 projects in an attempt to better understand and control the road salt problem. The first project was a study that highlighted the need for more information on the effects of salt on the environment and man-made structures to allow accurate cost-benefit analyses of alternate approaches. Research is now under way to identify an inexpensive hydrophobic or icephobic substance that would reduce ice adhesion when applied to the pavement (second project). Economic analyses of salt damage and alternate methods are also being further explored (the third project). The fourth project will determine methods of optimum salt use, develop a guide for salt storage and handling, and examine the ecological effect of dumping large quantities of snow from streets and highway into bodies or water supply watersheds.

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Snow and Ice Control. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411377

Authors:

Field, Richard
Masters, Hugh E
Tafuri, Anthony N
Struzeski Jr, Edmund J

Discussers:

Fenton, Richard; Wood, Frank O

Pagination:

pp 40-46

Publication Date:

1974

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 506
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Conference:

53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board

Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
Date: 1974-1-21 to 1974-1-25

ISBN:

0309022991

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References (9) ; Tables (1)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Handling

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Environment; Freight Transportation; Geotechnology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Terminals and Facilities

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 29 1975 12:00AM

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