Volunteers find high road salt levels in Michigan waterways

A snowplow at work. PHOTO CREDIT MDOT
A snowplow at work. PHOTO CREDIT MDOT

LANSING

Volunteers in Gaithersburg, Maryland, are fighting road salt pollution with catchy sayings painted on snowplow blades.

The group is in the hometown of the Izaak Walton League, a national environmental conservancy that created a nationwide program to monitor chloride levels and advocate for reduced use of road salt. The group has recorded high chloride readings in cities across the Midwest an…