January 11, 2024
Don’t Salt Your Mussels: Reducing Road Salt Runoff is Good for our Water and Freshwater Mussels
Funding is now available to help local communities in Ohio make road salt application and storage safer and more efficient. Every winter tons of road salt is spread on our roads and when that snow melts, that salt runs directly into our local waterways making the water toxic for mussels and other aquatic life, and polluting our drinking water.