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Sustainable Road Salting Practices: Brine

This fact sheet gives an overview of using brine as a sustainable road salting practice. Brine is a 23.3% salt-water mixture that is used to treat pavements before (anti-icing) and/or after storms (de-icing). It makes salting more precise and effective.