Toronto salt management plan balances safety/environment

Gary Welsh
Salt Institute
Salt and Highway Deicing newsletter
Fall 2002
The City of Toronto has created a Salt Management Plan, a pro-active program to balance the City’s objectives to preserve wintertime safety and mobility on 5,100 kilometers (3,160 miles) of roadways while minimizing adverse environmental impacts. It’s a delicate balancing act, an enormous management challenge. Toronto roads receive about 130 cm (65 inches) of snow every winter and the City uses 200 trucks and more than 140,000 metric tonnes (154,000 short tons) of salt to keep its roads safe and passable. It is a big job. Toronto’s salt management plan makes it possible to get that job done and done right.