Road salt deicing started in the United States during the 1940s and is still commonly used today (Glancy & Hinkle, 1986, p.1). The consequences of using road salt on infrastructure and the environment were discovered in the 1970s, and in 1976 the Environmental Protection Agency completed its first assessments on road salt. The results lead the Federal Highway Administration to seek an alternative to road salt (Glancy & Hinkle, 1986, p.1). This project shares the results of various studies that support calcium magnesium acetate as a noteworthy alternative to road salt. Several alternative deicers are analyzed. Based on several variables, calcium magnesium acetate is an environmentally friendly alternative. An implementation plan was devised for calcium magnesium acetate given the results of several studies.

Creator

• Washburn, Tom
• Thomas, Johanna
• Lavoie, Heather
• Schuler, Miles

Contributors

• Wulf, Sharon A.
• Rosbach, Derren

Subject

• The World's Water

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• GPS1209

Year

• 2012

Date created

• 2012-01-01

Resource type

• Poster

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Last modified

• 2023-12-05