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11th Annual Road Salt Symposium

Thursday, February 2, 2012
8:30am-3pm

 

Public Works, City Leaders, Water Managers, Winter Maintenance Industry, Private Maintenance,  Building Owners, Environmental Groups and Citizens!

 

 The 11th Annual Road Salt Symposium will feature the latest information on chlorides in our waters and provide innovative and new approaches to help repair our waters and sustain our resources.  Special emphasis this year will be on citizen behavior change. 

 

If your transportation department is looking for solutions, your waterways are threatened by chlorides, you want to educate your citizens, or you are looking to do your part to protect our waters- you won't want to miss this symposium!  Stopping chloride pollution is everyone's responsibility.   

 

 Agenda Highlights:  

 

-Premier of training video-  Improved Winter Maintenance:

  Good Choices for Clean Water 

- Water Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS)

- Education that Leads to Citizen Behavior Changes- and 

  50% decrease in salt use!

- New Research on Chloride Water Quality Standards 

- Robbinsdale Paired Intersection Study Results

- Update on Twin Cities Metro Area Chloride Management 

Plan  by MN PCA

-2012 Environmental Leadership Awards!

 

Please register by January 30, 2012. Cost for the day is $125 ($85 for seniors and students) which includes a continental breakfast and buffet lunch. Entrance into the Arboretum is complimentary.

 

A refund of the registration fee (minus $25) will be given for cancellations received up to 5 business days prior to the event. For cancellations received beyond 5 business days, but 24 hours prior to the event, 50% will be refunded. No refunds are issued if the registration was not cancelled.

 

Contact: 
Jeanne
952-314-8133
Registration: 
online at http://freshwater.org/2012RoadSalt/
U of MN Landscape Arboretum Chanhassen , MN ,
Minnesota