Why do road crews use it? Because it's the cheapest way to treat icy and snowy roads. Also done in the summer to keep dust down on dirt roads. Do you actually think town governments (and road crews) sit around thinking about the environmental impact on water wells, maple trees, and cars and trucks getting ruined from salt? Maybe where you come from, but I've yet to see it anywhere in the Northeast. One exception though. I've got land up in the Tug Hill Plateau that is more-or-less the snowmobile capital of NY. They don't use salt there on many roads, in an effort to keep highways snowcovered for snowmobiles. Funny thing though, they use lots of it on the same roads during the summer.
I know that here in New York, they use more and more salt every year, due the the State-taught "Clear Road" program. What that means is, any person should be able to drive like an idiot, even in the middle of a snow/ice storm. And, if that idiot gets into an accident, he/she gets to sue somebody for not keeping roads "safe."
There have already been entire villages that have lost use of their water wells forever, due to use of excess road salt. It is certainly no big "secret" anymore then cancer from cigarettes ever was.
As things are right now, if a town government told the public that salt was getting cut back and they might have to stay home during snowstorms, or drive more prudently, they'd be complaining, ad nauseum.
And, if the town government said they wanted to use a safer alternative to calcium chloride that costs much more, and all our taxes have to be raised, people would be complaining again.
So, what will probably happen is, road salt will come out of use slowly, over time - just like tobacco, and even fat in my Burger King hamburgers.
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