Inventory of Road Salt Use in the Minneapolis/St.Paul Metropolitan Area

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• metropolitan area 65%
• city 37%
• contract 19%
• salt 18%
• municipality 18%
• chloride 15%
• softening 14%
• winter 12%
• county 12%
• aquatic animal 8%
• material 8%
• purchase 7%
• sodium chloride 7%
• snowmelt 7%
• rate 6%
• aquatic ecosystem 6%
• water 6%
• travel 6%
• wastewater treatment plant 6%
• tributary 6%
• assimilation 5%
• road 4%
• cold 4%
• runoff 4%
• contamination 4%
• pollutant 3%
• lake 3%
• exposure 3%
• cost 3%
• river 3%
• effect 1%