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Study Shows Environmental Road Salting Proves Effective

For Immediate Release: April 14, 2017, by the Salt Institute

Naples, FL- A new study published in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of the Sciences (Salting our freshwater lakes) purports to sound the alarm about rising chloride levels in North American lakes. The study actually found that chloride levels in the majority of the examined lakes either stayed the same or declined and that chloride levels were far below EPA toxicity standards. Chloride concentrations across all 371 lakes in the study had a median of 6 milligrams per liter, while the EPA standard is 230 mg/L. …

Automatic Brine Business is Growing

The Cope Company Salt has expanded its automatic brine system, AUTOBrine® offering to the Mid-West Region and welcomes two new Sales Representatives to our team.  David Fields and Bret Abner joined the Cope Company in June and are excited to offer the AUTOBrine® to facilities in need of a safer, greener, and more cost effective way to handle water conditioning salt. …