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Salt makes snow roads safer, but it also threatens the environment and drinking water.
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Salt makes snow roads safer, but it also threatens the environment and drinking water.

Salt makes snowy roads safer but threatens drinking water, environment

Five years ago Hague was part the problem.

The upstate New York town of Lake George, located between the scenic Lake George and Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area, saw more than 6 feet snow each winter. The highway department poured nearly 2200 tons of rock salt onto 110 miles, almost 2 pounds per square yard.

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