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Revision as of 22:43, 22 December 2021
The Smart Salting Assessment tool (SSAt), formerly the Winter Maintenance Assessment tool, has been developed as a resource of all known salt saving BMPs. The SSAt is a free, web-based tool that can be used to assist public and private winter maintenance organizations in determining where opportunities exist to improve practices, make reductions in salt use, and track progress.
PLEASE NOTE: This SSAt was developed to help minimize the use of road salt on Minnesota parking lots, sidewalks and roadways. However, this tool works for any location where road salt is used as a de-icer. The MPCA created this tool in a web-based environment and encourages the use of the tool anywhere there is a need to minimize road salt use.
Related pages
- Overview and impacts of road salt and deicers
- Information on costs and economic impacts of road salt
- Management tools
- MPCA Smart Salting Training Program
- Education Resources
- Educational resources for Smart Salting (S2). For more information on chloride resources, see Statewide chloride resources
- Success stories: salt reduction and cost saving examples
- Technical reports and Chloride TMDLs
- Chloride and NPDES Permits
- References for Smart Salting (S2) and road salt winter maintenance
- Chloride and groundwater
- Impacts of stormwater infiltration on chloride in Minnesota groundwater - White paper produced for the Minnesota Groundwater Association
- Calculator for estimating chloride loading to groundwater
- Guidance for calculator to estimate chloride loading to groundwater from infiltration