Sentences with phrase «road salt use»

An environmentally friendly method of decreasing road salt use is to combine road salt and, yes, beet juice.

One of them is the future road salt use index, which is related to days when precipitation occurs and the minimum temperature is below 2ºC.

«It's this odd situation where people are expecting to be able to drive 110 km / h [65 mph] on all - season radials, which are not suitable for the road conditions, because they assume enough salt has been laid down to make them safe,» says Kevin Mercer, the founder of Toronto - based watershed group Riversides who has studied road salt use in Ontario.

In the affected vehicles, the front lower control arms may break due to corrosion from salt water exposure such as from road salt use.

Through 2009, metrics indicated that salinity was on the rise thanks to road salt use over the preceding 30 years.

The study, conducted at Yan's lab in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, suggests that lake and highway authorities consider adjusting road salt use protocols to protect aquatic life such as the water flea, by taking the nutritional status of the lakes into account.

ROAD SALT USED DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IN THESE JURISDICTIONS MAY RESULT IN INTERNAL CORROSION AND THINNING OF THE STEEL IN THE FRONT LOWER CONTROL ARMS.

Not exact matches

According to Tesla, the problem is infrequent and typically occurs in cold - weather regions where a particular kind of salt is used to clear snow and ice on the road.

«We have observed excessive corrosion in the power steering bolts, though only in very cold climates, particularly those that frequently use calcium or magnesium road salts, rather than sodium chloride (table salt).

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Town officials said the improvement was due to cost - saving efforts including buying used trucks for the town instead of new ones, coating roads with cheaper beet - juice brine before snowstorms instead of using salt, installing high - efficiency LED streetlights, posting legal notices online instead of in print, and hiring part - time snow plow operators to avoid paying overtime for full - time crews.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein issued an executive order last week banning the use of fracking brine — a residue of drilling for natural gas, cheaper than salt — on county roads.

He believes that this will save a lot of money in terms of the amount of sand / salt that the road crews use, as well as helping in the spring when they clean the roads, as there would be much less to clean if they can reduce the salt and sand that they spray on the roads during wintertime.

Well, air and pavement temperatures are very important, not only in how we do the plowing, but in terms of salt and other additives that we'll use to treat the road conditions,» Driscoll said.

The damage is caused by years of exposure to water and de-icing road salt commonly used during winter.

There were three possible sources of the chloride: ferric chloride used to remove particles from water, chloride that was in the river naturally and road salt that accumulated after winter runoff.

Since the 1940s, the use of road salt to keep winter roads navigable has been escalating.

The new composite released de-icing salt for two months in the lab, but the effects could last even longer when used on real roads, the researchers note.

Using data on the rate at which water flows in the creek and official figures on how much salt is spread on the roads, he calculated that even by November only about 45 per cent of the previous winter's salt had been washed down the creek; the rest remained in the ground water.

Faster emergence of mosquitoes could significantly increase the abundance of mosquitoes, particularly if large quantities of additives are used to make salts stick to roads, but less salt is applied to the roads.

By using these products, agencies need to apply less road salt.

More than 50 percent of all de-icing materials used on roads are made of sodium chloride (NaCl), and salt overspray and runoff into adjacent natural systems can change the physical and chemical environment.

The use of deicing road salts has increased from.28 million metric tons per year in the 1940s to over 16 million metric tons per year today.

In addition, while sodium chloride road salt is the most widely used type of road salt, it is increasingly being replaced by alternatives that contain different types of salts or different additives such as beet juice.

The findings make use of experiments conducted as part of The Jefferson Project at Lake George testing the potential impacts of road salt and leaf litter on the health of aquatic ecosystems.

Despite the widespread use of salt, this study is among the first and few to actually test the effects of road salt on wetland communities, and far more work has to be done to fully understand these effects.

Using 1,200 - liter tanks outfitted to mimic lake ecosystems, researchers exposed Daphnia to five levels of road salt (sodium chloride) ranging from a relatively low concentration of 15 milligrams chloride per liter (the current Lake George concentration) to a high concentration of 1,000 milligrams per liter (mimicking highly contaminated lakes in North America).

Could not wear bottom half here (Montréal) as pants are immediately splattered with salt and gravel bits used to treat the roads and sidewalks - it's inescapable all winter!

United Way, the Road Home, and the Utah Humane Society are just a few of the nonprofit organizations and charities in Salt Lake City that can always use some help from local community members.

As snow and low temperatures cause transport problems all over the UK, a timely summary of the importance of rock salt (used for road grit and other products).

Intrepid is flooding the Salt Flats in March instead of November, not leaving enough time for the brine to adequately permeate and bolster Bonneville's surface crust, and salt that should be returned to the flats after the extraction of minerals is now being bagged and sold by Intrepid to municipalities for road Salt Flats in March instead of November, not leaving enough time for the brine to adequately permeate and bolster Bonneville's surface crust, and salt that should be returned to the flats after the extraction of minerals is now being bagged and sold by Intrepid to municipalities for road salt that should be returned to the flats after the extraction of minerals is now being bagged and sold by Intrepid to municipalities for road use.

I'm in the NE with plenty of road salt exposure and the truck sits (outside) sometimes for several days without use.

In areas where road salt is used in the winter, the use of wheel covers or hub caps may...

In areas where salt is often used on roads, rust protection shops are prevalent (at least in Finland I know there are many rust protection shops near the capital area).

If you really, really want to buy second hand cars, do buy from a place a bit further away where salt is not used on the roads and thus rust is not an issue.

Wash your car very thoroughly immediately after winter, when salt is no longer used on the roads but when temperatures are not yet elevated like during the summer.

That was due to the use of salt on the roads of which the state of Vermont used a lot.

Kia indicates only vehicles operated in states using road salt during winter months are susceptible to the corrosion issue.

I'm sure a proper set of snow tires would help it through winter in Michigan, but the roads get too degraded after the freeze / thaw cycle and pervasive use of road salt run their course.

The preliminary report also notes the issue seemed more severe in states using road salts, which could corrode the rear axle beam due to its «U» channel design.

According to that evaluation document, the problem seemed to be worse in states that use a lot of road salt.

Damage Caused by airborne fallout, rail dust, salt from sea air, salt or other materials used to control road conditions, chemicals, tree sap, stones, hail, earthquake, water or flood, windstorm, lightning, the application of chemicals or sealants subsequent to manufacture, etc., is not covered.

Granted, the bodies of the old trucks have held up well to 30 years of road salt, etc., but wouldn't it make more sense to use off - the - shelf vans like promaster city, transit connect or similar, which are made as RHD for other markets?

If you live very close to the beach or in an area where they use salt on the roads in winter, this is important.

I bought this car used from my uncle, and he lives in the northern US where salt is frequently used on the roads.

The main issue is that the undercarriage is very rusty (it started it's life in Chicago where they use WAY too much salt on the roads).

On the plus side, superior corrosion resistance means that the Jetta can better withstand humidity and use of road salt in the winter than some Japanese brands.

All of the complaints come from states like Michigan, Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania that use salt to melt ice and snow on their roads.

In the states shown in the table above, where there is heavy use of road salt in the winter and corrosion is likely to occur, the dealer will replace both front coil springs and perform a front wheel alignment at no cost to you.

In the states listed below where there is heavy use of road salt in the winter and corrosion is likely to occur, the dealers will replace the front coil springs.