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Rock Salt to be used in Oregon

grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
edited October 2012 in General Discussion
quote:PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oregon has long avoided the use of rock salt for snow removal but now it plans a five-year pilot project to use salt strategically on two routes typically hard-hit by winter storms. The Oregonian reports it obtained a state Transportation Department document that says the agency wants "another tool in the toolbox" to keep roads clear. Transportation Department spokesman Dave Thompson acknowledges that rock salt is "stuff we said we wouldn't use in the past." However, he says occasional use would help make for "consistent highway conditions" between Oregon and neighboring states that use salt. The plan calls for using solid rock salt on an 11-mile stretch of Interstate 5 where it crosses the Siskiyou Pass at the California border, and along 120 miles of U.S. Highway 95 between the Nevada and Idaho borders

At least its in areas where I do not travel much.

Comments

  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Cheaper than Calcium Chloride,I guess...
  • trc313trc313 Member Posts: 3,475
    edited November -1
    almost thought this was an EMS post...
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by trc313
    almost thought this was an EMS post...


    Well if it goes state wide there goes rust free cars.
  • 4627046270 Member Posts: 12,627
    edited November -1
    glad I dont live up there.
  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    quote:Originally posted by trc313
    almost thought this was an EMS post...


    Well if it goes state wide there goes rust free cars.


    And a lot of dead trees to boot. If recall that's why they stopped using it in the Sierra/Tahoe range.
  • Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    So where are the Greenpeacers when you need 'em?
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ray B
    So where are the Greenpeacers when you need 'em?

    Sliding to their death,off an icy road?
  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by us55840
    Lucky people don't live in the state of Michigan. Was there for about a year.

    When the forecast says snow .... they start salting the roads before the first flake falls.

    Never seen so many rust buckets before ... or so many driving newer cars 'cause older ones are all rusted out.

    NEVER by a Corvette UNLESS you inspect the undercarriage and frame. It may be rusted near in two. [:(]




    Yep the same here to and we add Calcium Chloride to our salt as well.
  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Cheaper than Calcium Chloride,I guess...




    Here they have to add it to the salt when the temps get below 20 degrees or so. Without it the salt is useless.
  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,335 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    quote:Originally posted by trc313
    almost thought this was an EMS post...


    Well if it goes state wide there goes rust free cars.


    ..Illinois isn't part of the "rust belt" for no reason. I have a cousin in Portland OR and a sister in Klamath Falls. I'll have ask their opinion on this.
    ..We used to ski in the MI U.P. Sand and cinders and slow down. Dirty cars but not as rusty as in the salt zone.
  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In New York's Adirondack they use sand because it gets so cold the salt won't work. You haven't lived until you have a logging truck right behind you while driving down a sand covered, wash board road packed with snow .
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ltcdoty
    In New York's Adirondack they use sand because it gets so cold the salt won't work. You haven't lived until you have a logging truck right behind you while driving down a sand covered, wash board road packed with snow .


    No but I had the truck sanding the road loose traction and start sliding back I was following him up the hill.
  • Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    I'll have to make sure to hit the self-serve car washes after traveling over the Siskiyous, primarily to wash the undercarriage.
  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 21,974 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where's the EPA and the tree huggers? Looking forward to California car dealers selling "under coats" to the new cars.
  • JimmyJackJimmyJack Member Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Almost all roads in Wis. are salted.
  • kannoneerkannoneer Member Posts: 3,401 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They use rock salt down south, too. But its loaded into a 12 gauge and used to protect watermelon patches.
  • 320090T320090T Member Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Indiana uses lots of salt, often, then people * about the roads being ate up. Friend of mine from CO said out there they learn to drive on the snow.
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