Road Salt Resources

This fact sheet gives an overview of tracking salt as a sustainable salt practice. A key step in implementing sustainable road salting is to track the amount of salt used. If you don’t know how much salt is being spread, you cannot assess how you are doing to limit its use over time. Luckily, new technologies allow communities and businesses to track salt use with precision.

This fact sheet outlines the use of segmented plows as a sustainable road salt practice. A segmented (or sectional) plow is a plow blade with multiple sections, varying from one to four feet wide. Each segment moves independently along the road surface during plowing, removing snow more effectively as it passes over uneven surfaces.