ROAD SALTS GUIDELINES
September 1st, 2003
BY MONICA DOBIETHE CANADIAN government has proposed a code of practice on the environmentally-friendly use of road salts which should provide good practice advice for British environmental health departments. The guidelines have been developed because of concern that melt-water from roads and storage areas have resulted in high concentrations of chloride in Canadian rivers and lakes.The code, intended for organisations that use more than 500 tonnes of road salts per year, suggests:*That public authorities develop and implement road salts management plans, which ...
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