tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post3678428260338229798..comments2024-03-27T21:23:40.339-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: Road salt use is enough to raise salt levels in drinking waterChemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-65451418879690050902022-01-11T10:38:00.594-05:002022-01-11T10:38:00.594-05:00From a water quality perspective, urea really shou...From a water quality perspective, urea really should not be used. I'd like to see softer anion usage, though the costs are much higher. IIRC, sodium and/or potassium acetate is used for airport runways and deicing planes as it works faster and doesn't pit concrete and blacktop like sodium chloride. I think sodium and/or potassium formates are also approved for use by the FAA but I am not sure if they are favored over the acetates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-89913777439276036472022-01-11T06:05:23.628-05:002022-01-11T06:05:23.628-05:00urea does not have this problem and works even bet...urea does not have this problem and works even better than salt. Except that it is more expensive, and a too good fertilizer, causes algal blooms later in the springmilkshakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08188961610554710616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-40741788141848138892022-01-11T06:03:33.411-05:002022-01-11T06:03:33.411-05:00it is also bad for cars, they rust alot faster. Yo...it is also bad for cars, they rust alot faster. You can compare used car prices, using Kelly's Blue Book, and you will notice significant price difference in older models - the same make, year, mileage - between states where they use salt on the roads, and the states where they don'tmilkshakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08188961610554710616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-52318637032354070762022-01-10T09:19:11.577-05:002022-01-10T09:19:11.577-05:00Just last week after a small snow here and seeing ...Just last week after a small snow here and seeing salt on parking lots, I got to wondering where all this salt ends up.<br /><br />Interesting that there is so much salt in well water. The house I have now is the first one I've lived at with a well, and we had to have a new well drilled last year. Being a curious person, I did some looking into well construction and talked to the driller. My impression was that the liner is supposed to keep ground-level contaminants out. But, I suppose changes to well construction, depth, and local geology probably impact this (our first well, drilled in 1963, had I believe only 30 feet of liner; I think the new well has 140 feet of liner).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com