Inventory management of solid ice control chemicals (salt)

Duane E. "Dewey" Amsler
Salt Institute
Salt and Highway Deicing newsletter
Spring 2004

One of the most heartburn-causing situations faced by highway maintenance managers is to run low on, or out of salt, during the snow and ice season. Proper inventory management can avoid this and includes having 100% of an average winter's salt supplies in your own storage facility, ordering well in advance and keeping re-supplied, beginning the season with full storage facilities and employing Sensible Salting in storage and application. Examples: Indiana DOT; Rockland County, NY; Marquette, MI; Township of Goffstown, NH; and McHenry County, IL.