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Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water

  • January 27, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water
Snow has returned to the Philadelphia region, and along with it the white residues on streets and sidewalks that result from the over-application of deicers such as sodium chloride, or rock salt, as well as more modern salt alternatives.

Originally published at Phys.org

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