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Late last month, more than 300 volunteers and about 30 organizations in Pennsylvania and Delaware answered Stroud Water Research Center’s call to gather chloride data from streams for Winter Salt Week, a multistate effort to raise awareness about the threat of road salt to fresh water.
The volunteers collected stream water samples and tested their chloride levels, an indicator of road salt pollution.
In addition, over 400 people from eighteen states and five countries accepted the Stroud Center’s Cut the Salt challenge by requesting free Freshwater Test Kits to test their waterways and share their chloride data with scientists and online.
Together, the volunteers and Cut the Salt participants contributed to a map of road salt impacts across more than 600 stream sites.
More than 70% of the stream sites exceeded one or more safe limits. The highest chloride reading was 15,900 milligrams per liter, far exceeding even the highest recommendation, which is 860 milligrams per liter during only acute periods.
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Resource Links:
-- Four Seasons Of Salt Threaten Wildlife
-- FOX43: Watershed Experts Keep An Eye On Road Salt Pollution In York County Streams, Creeks
(Reprinted from the latest UpStream newsletter from Stroud Water Research Center. Click Here to sign up for your own copy.)
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