Increasing chloride in rivers of the conterminous U.S. and linkages to potential corrosivity and lead action level exceedances in drinking water

Though this post is based on the US, the same issue applies to us in Canada and other areas as well. 🤔🤔🤔

Supplementing physical snow removal, roadsalt is a valued snow & ice removal tool. But overuse is known to impair lakes & streams (https://t.co/ul0uXYAmDD). Recent USGS research shows chloride also is increasing corrosivity of water: https://t.co/F

@AWRAHQ In my talk, I mentioned recent excellent papers on road salt / chloride by @Kristy_Gutchess & @StedTets. Will be adding refs for these to version that’ll be posted online. https://t.co/bEngxnz6y6 https://t.co/GS9FYF7eHH

RT @IIHRUIowa: Ever wonder what all that road salt used in winter does to our water infrastructure, rivers, and streams? https://t.co/Lj5d3…