ApocaDocs: Road salt spreading into our water

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Posted Wed Feb 11 2009: from Minneapolis Star Tribune:


	Road salt spreading into our water http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1234361570 Rain and melting snow in the Twin Cities have flushed away road salt residue from hundreds of streets and tens of thousands of cars. But that might not be a good thing. Now a University of Minnesota study estimates that 70 percent of the deicing salt used on metro-area roadways does not travel far when it drains off the pavement. It gushes into area wetlands and lakes and seeps into groundwater, and it is making them saltier with each successive year. About 30 percent goes to the Mississippi River.

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Heartless Phil says: "makes me thirsty!"
Some ancient quote says: "... and salt their fields and streams and leave no life behind."

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'Doc Michael says:

And mixed w/ all the PCBs and pharmaceuticals... what a delightful elixir!

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