Sentences with phrase «road salt which»

On top of the fuel tank the fuel sending unit is not protected from road salt which causes the metal to rust over time and can possibly cause a leak.

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He explored, surveyed, and built and maintained the first road for public transportation in Parley's Canyon in Salt Lake City, which is named in his honor.

The site, which the district leases from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, is bound by Smith Street, Plum Grove Road, Salt Creek and Cunningham Avenue.

It is important for motorists on all roads to note that snowplows travel at speeds up to 35 miles per hour, which in many cases is lower than the posted speed limit, to ensure that salt being dispersed stays in the driving lanes and does not scatter off the roadways.

In the past two years for the Town of Peru, I secured a grant for $ 7,800 to put a roof on the Lyons Road Schoolhouse and promoted a plan by town employee Robbie Wright to repair the hoops over the salt shed roof, which saved the town thousands instead of a full replacement.»

Dark grey crystals define the irregular polygonal shapes, which are around one metre across, and inside are the precious creamy - white salt crystals, mined to make fertilisers and road salt, among other things.

The researchers credit a fluke of geology: The lakes apparently sit atop thick salt deposits laid down hundreds of millions of years ago, which act like road salt to keep the water liquid.

The study titled Food Quality Affects the Sensitivity of Daphnia to Road Salt, which was published recently in the peer - reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology, found that at food concentrations below 0.6 mg of carbon per litre, chloride concentrations below the current Canadian Water Quality Guideline were lethal to the daphnia.

Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.

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.

Recent research was reported in an article in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, which found that high levels of road salt can alter the sex ratios of frogs; an article in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, which documented the effects of road salt and a common insecticide on wetland food webs; and an article in Environmental Pollution, which examined potential interactions between road salt, predators, and competitors in wetland food webs.

After creating 60 of these miniature wetlands — which takes up about a fourth of an acre — researchers added road salt (sodium chloride) and carbaryl, either alone or in combination.

«Plankton, which are key consumers of algae and a food source for many fish, may be making a monumental tradeoff to tolerate increased road salt,» said Rick Relyea, Jefferson Project director, CBIS member, and co-author of the study.

«The potential consequences to amphibian populations are interesting, including the continual masculinization of frog populations for many generations in habitats contaminated with high concentrations of road salt, which could potentially affect the abundance of frogs in these habitats,» said Relyea.

Tap water contains on an average from 200 - 400 of TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) depends on a state you live in, which are substances such as road salt, metals, old piping, leaves whole bunch of other things that our water contains.

In the movie (which opens Wednesday in Salt Lake City), a woman in a small town, Mildred Hayes (played by Frances McDormand), rents three billboards on the road into town.

The House will take up the texting while driving ban aka «TTYL» bill (HB2) sponsored by Rep. Jim McClendon, Rep. Mac McCutcheon's legislation adding utility trucks and wreckers to the list of vehicles for which drivers are required to slow down and move into a vacant lane for when parked on the side of the road (HB76), and Rep. Allen Farley's bill to crack down on synthetic drugs known as «spice» or «salts» (HB158).

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

He steps off the surface road onto the Salt Flats, which is flooded up past his ankles, while the Japanese gentleman takes photos of him with the biker's camera.

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.

As with so many of our meticulously planned trips we weren't entirely sure what to expect when we arrived, and an exploratory potter up to the top of the road didn't reveal much other than snow, trees and the fact that the road had been salted, which was something of a relief.

The hatch swallows a ton of stuff, and the well - placed handle on the inside of the hatch door makes it easy to close without touching the outside of the car, which is a bonus when the vehicle is coated in road salt.

Details: Moisture containing road salt could enter the battery junction box and cause corrosion of the fuse and wiring terminals, resulting in a loss of electrical connectivity in some powertrain circuits, which might cause the vehicle to stall, as well as exterior lighting.

Snow squalls, heavy winds and occasional black ice make this route treacherous and nerve - wracking, especially at night — which adds the danger of lumbering moose attracted to salt on the roads.

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?

On some of these vehicles, road salt can corrode the front control arms to the point of which they fail, ultimately causing the vehicle to lose control.

Among major reasons why alternative to salt roads are: Corrosive The salt has the ability to corrode our car body works which are metallic in nature, eat away the metal that are used in the vehicles and to a greater extent the brake linings are not left behind.

These are among the benefits that you will find in using Safe Paw which is the sure way of protecting our pets and their surroundings from the undesirable effects of salt on roads.

Cruise along the coastal road N332 to enjoy spectacular views of the Costa Blanca and Torrevieja's huge salt lakes and mountains, which produce more than half a million tonnes of salt each year.

«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.

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.

Beet juice lowers the temperature at which road salt works.