SALT MANAGEMENT PLANS

In Canada, more than $1 billion is spent annually on winter maintenance including road salts, which are the preferred deicing and anti-icing chemicals for maintaining winter roadway safety due to their cost, effectiveness, and ease of handling. Road salt (particularly calcium chloride) is also used to control dust on gravel roads and construction sites during dry weather. Excessive use of salt can have environmental impacts and, recognizing their responsibility to the environment, many road authorities across Canada are taking positive steps towards implementing salt best-management practices. This first installment in a series of Codes of Practice is aimed at assisting road authorities find ways to more effectively manage their salt use and provide the public with safer and more efficient roadway systems.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

  401-1111 Prince of Wales Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Publication Date: 2002-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 7 p.
• Serial:
  • TAC Code of Practice
  • Publisher: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Calcium chloride; Deicing chemicals; Environmental impacts; Highway departments; Highway maintenance; Maintenance management; Maintenance practices; Snow and ice control; Sodium chloride
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00943754
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 20 2003 12:00AM