Be Salt Wise! Do your part to protect our health and environment
Click here to read Slater’s story and learn why it is so important to be salt wise.
Be Sidewalk Salt Wise!
It’s neighborly to salt your sidewalks as needed — and just as neighborly to be salt wise in doing so.
Remove snow and clear pavement before snow turns to ice. De-icers and salt are not meant to replace the work of shoveling.
More is not better. Sprinkle de-icers sparingly and evenly. Read the directions carefully and apply the least amount necessary.
At the end of a weather event, sweep and collect any sand, salt, or undissolved de-icer. Any excess can be reused for the next storm.
Visit Montgomery County’s Department of Environmental Protection for more on these and other ways to be Sidewalk Salt Wise.
Be Street Salt Wise!
If you see too much salt on our streets, report it to the county or state. They will removal it — and learn that residents will expect road crews to be Salt Wise
See something. Do something.
County roads: Report here OR call 311
State roads: Report here
OR call 301-513-7300
State roads are the numbered highways.
“Over the last 30 years, we’ve seen a tremendous increase in salt levels in the water we pull from the Patuxent and Potomac rivers. Once salt enters these drinking water sources, we cannot remove it during the filtration process”
— WSSC Water
2022 Water Quality Report, p. 12
Do your part to protect our health and environment by being salt wise!
Click here to read Slater’s story and learn why it is so important to be salt wise.
Friends of Native Trees in Takoma 