REPUBLIC, MI -- A pair of storage buildings used by the Marquette County Road Commission were damaged Monday by a fire, according to WLUC-6. While one of the buildings was empty at the time of the ...

By comparison, Dunn said Davenport road crews used more than 15,000 tons of road salt during the 2020-2021 winter season and only 9,600 tons of road salt during the 2019-2020 winter season.

The bulk of the cheaper salt — 9,760 tons that is the city’s typical annual purchase and that fits in the public works salt storage buildings — will go to Davenport. Most of the other, more ...

To alleviate hop scarcity, more hop farms were established. Weather prognostication and storage, it stands to reason, are the major factors in the availability of road salt.

A driver walks over to the snow plow inside a salt-storage dome in West Town, on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. The city of Chicago stores tons of road salt inside these domes around the city.

SCRANTON — The city recently completed construction of a salt shed in Pine Brook to replace the old damaged one near Department of Public Works headquarters. The new shed for road salt, erected ...

Euclid City Council recently approved a contract with Greystone Construction to build a new fabric-based road-salt storage facility. Greystone Construction, a Minnesota-based construction contracto… ...

Now part of planning firm Bolton & Menk, Fortin’s latest work is aimed at reducing the big-picture problem of road salt, going “upstream” and re-thinking designs for roads, buildings, and ...

Road salt is an environmental pollutant. Salt has been used to de-ice roads in the United States since the 1930s, and its use across the country has tripled in the past 50 years, Dr. Hintz said.

John Haven, the board’s buildings and grounds chairman, said he examined the storage shed and the new metal roof — bid by GreenCore LLC at a cost of $12,892 — was badly needed.

Mar 13, 2022 — As road crews clear the snow and ice from the latest winter storm, they're are also spreading thousands of pounds of salt. Some of that salt seeps into rivers and lakes in the ...

Road materials stockpiles are nearly depleted of rock salt in Berks County, a simple matter of supply (storage space) vs. demand from frequent snow showers and ice storms this winter.