Highway Users Urges Strong, Timely Investment in Road Salt in Light of Supply and Demand Factors Monday, January 12, 2015 For Immediate Release NEWS RELEASE Contact: Bruce Hamilton, 202.857.1200, brucehamilton@highways.org (WASHINGTON, DC) – The impact of winter weather on the nation’s roadways is so severe that transportation officials should consider significant up-front investment in adequate road salt supplies well before the season hits, according to a new report by the American Highway Users Alliance. The ...
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October, 2011 The Honorable Tom Vilsack Secretary of Agriculture U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC 20250 The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC 20201 Re: Requests for Withdrawal of Sodium Dietary Guideline Provisions, Transparent Rulemaking and Freedom of Information Act Request Dear Secretary Vilsack and Secretary Sebelius: As demonstrated below, the provisions of ...
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Want to know more about the problems of hard water and how to fix them with a salt based water softener?"Water Treatment For Dummies: WQA Special Edition" is a consumer-directed publication from the Water Quality Association designed to answer common questions about the quality of water in your home or business. Under 50 pages in length and written in a simple, jargon-free style, Water Treatment for Dummies will give you a basic understanding of how ...
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Snowfighter Handbook SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE SNOWFIGHTING HANDBOOK The Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting Handbook takes winter maintenance to a new level. It is a tool that can be used to provide excellent customer service, while protecting the environment. The modern snowfighter must be accountable for meeting the community’s needs for safety and mobility, as well as the safeguarding of our environment. We commend all those agencies practicing the Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting approach to snow and ...
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This report summarizes the results from a three year research project entitled “Snow and Ice Control for Parking Lots and Sidewalks (SICOPS)”. The document highlights the important findings from the project along with a number of recommendations that can help maintenance contractors and government agencies develop a cost-effective winter maintenance program for snow and ice control of parking lots and sidewalks. The report is intentionally brief and concise so that it can be easily followed ...
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Clear Winter Roads Protect Lives and Commerce Download Brochure as PDF ...
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Water softeners save costs on heating and reduces carbon footprint The Battelle Research Institute confirmed that the use of ion exchange water softeners to eliminate scale formation will result in water heaters remaining constant efficient over the entire life of the unit. In contrast, water heaters using un-softened water had a noticeable decrease in efficiency over the same period.  Further, there are environmental benefits to the use of a water softener: the lower use of ...
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How Softeners Work Conventional water softeners have two separate chambers, the resin tank and the brine tank, and use an ion-exchange process to remove the hardness ions calcium and magnesium. Softeners often are able to remove not only calcium and magnesium, but also iron, manganese and radium. Raw feed water is passed through a bed of resin "beads" inside the resin tank where the hardness ions in the feed water trade places on the resin ...
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