{"id":3211,"date":"2026-04-06T11:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.seagrant.w3.uvm.edu\/?page_id=3211"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:21:36","slug":"tips-for-reducing-use-of-road-salt-for-community-leaders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/tips-for-reducing-use-of-road-salt-for-community-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Reducing Use of Road Salt for Community Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why It Makes Sense for Communities to Reduce Salt Use<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are numerous reasons why it makes sense for communities to reduce the use of road salt. This video shares the experience of the City of South Burlington, Vermont, which\u00a0has been able to reduce salt use and save money through salt tracking and equipment calibration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Reducing Use of Deicing Salt for Community Leaders\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1pOEv1YTjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake Champlain Sea Grant staff are available and willing to participate in a conversation in your community based upon this video to help community leaders understand the benefits of and steps to reducing road salt use. Contact Kris Stepenuck\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kstepenu@uvm.edu\">kstepenu@uvm.edu<\/a>\u00a0if you would like to arrange a meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why It Makes Sense for Communities to Reduce Salt Use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-3211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3211\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}