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Road salt may hurt vital link in freshwater food chain, study says
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Road salt is really only effect to around -10°C anyways. Having lived places that get some fairly brutal winters, salt isn't even that effective anyways.
Grit/sand mixtures tend to be much more effective regardless of temperature. Winter tires should be mandatory in places that require them (I've seen chains allowed instead of winters in some areas, but I know little about them). Maintaining some snowpack instead of a pavement clear can reduce the freeze/thaw amplification effect of pavement and other road surfaces (though that requires temps consistently below 0°).
Anyways, there are oodles of effective snow and ice clearing and management techniques that don't require salt.
(good point. might want to edit that last word ~~ice~~ -> salt.)
Me proofread good.