Links and resources

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Resources

• Environment Canada Code of Practice for the Environmental Management of Road Salts (April 2004)
• Environment Canada's Multistakeholder Working Group on Road Salts
• Environment Canada Priority Substances Assessment Report on Road Salt (August 2000)
• Salt Institute news release on the Environment Canada Report (August 11, 2000)
• Salt Institute critique of the Environment Canada Report (October 20, 2000)
• University of Toronto Study on Road Salt's Effects on Ground Water Quality
• U.S. Transportation Research Board study comparing CMA and Road Salt (1991)
• Road Salt Management - A Transportation Association of Canada on-line course
• Transportation Association of Canada Primer on Road Salt (7-page fact sheet for the public)(December 1999) [PDF]
• Fact Sheet on Calcium Magnesium Acetate publuished by Cryotech (April 1998) [PDF]
• Environmental Impacts of Road Salt and Alternatives in the New York City Watershed, article in the July/August 2001 issue of Stormwater Journal
• Deicing Salt: Still on the Table, article in May/June 2001 issue of Stormwater Journal
• Road Salts an Environmental Concern. Environment Canada The Science and the Environment bulletin Nov/Dec 1999
• Road Salt and Trees
• Duluth Streams road salt page
• Snow, Road Salt and the Chesapeake Bay including http://www.stormcenter.com/envirocast/2003-01-01/envirocast-article4.php">What you can do
• The Temporal and Spatial Impacts of Road Salts on Streams Draining the Greater Toronto Area [PDF]
  

Links

• The Salt Institute - A U.S. based non-profit association of salt producers founded in 1914.
• Cryotech - Manufacturers of calcium magnesium acetate, an alternative to road salt.
• Environment Canada Priority Substances Program Home Page.
• Canadian Environmental Protection Act Home Page.
• The Canadian Salt Company Limited
• IMC Salt / Sifto Salt (Mississauga)
• Snow and Ice Management Association
• AASHTO Innovative Highway Technologies
• Dow Chemical Calcium Chloride Home Page - Dow is the largest manufacturer of calcium chloride. Site includes full product specifications and properties.
• Transportation Association of Canada

Media Coverage

• The low down on road salts. CBC news special report by June Chua.
• "Tests show sewer water as salty as the ocean", by Martin Mittelstaedt (Globe and Mail, Wednesday, March 28, 2001)
• "Road Salt Ruins Toronto's Rivers", by Zen Ruryk (The Toronto Sun, Wednesday, March 28, 2001)
• "Winter salt is pickling river dwellers, group says", by James Wallace (National Post, Wednesday March 28, 2001)
• "Salt ban: More death, higher taxes", by Mohammed Adam (The Ottawa Citizen, Saturday August 12, 2000)
• "Mini-seas take over inland ditches - Road salt produces marine ecosystems toxic to native plants", by Tom Spears (The Ottawa Citizen, Friday, August 25, 2000)
• "Salt runoff may kill fish, harm drinking water, experts say", by By Jeremy Pearce (The Detroit News, Wednesday March 19, 1997)