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Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water

Snow has returned to the Philadelphia region, and along with it the white residues on streets and sidewalks that result from the over-application of deicers such as sodium chloride, or rock salt, as well as more modern salt alternatives.

Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water
Image: Phys.org
Snow has returned to the Philadelphia region, and along with it the white residues on streets and sidewalks that result from the over-application of deicers such as sodium chloride, or rock salt, as well as more modern salt alternatives.

Originally published at Phys.org

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