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By Ry Rivard
August 1, 2020
When homeowners have found salt in their tap water, any delay—even hoping to get the government’s help instead of going to court—can be fatal to their court case.
By Ry Rivard
July 23, 2020
In the state's first serious attempt at reining in the 300 million pounds of road salt dumped each year in the Adirondack Park, state lawmakers this week approved a bill to study how much damage salt is doing in the region, particularly to drinking water supplies.
By Ry Rivard
June 12, 2020
The sodium levels are both mysterious and remarkable, given the region’s reputation for and economic reliance on pristine water.
By Ry Rivard
April 30, 2020
An Adirondack Explorer investigation found that across upstate New York, road salt has seeped into drinking water supplies, poisoned wells, endangered public health and threatened people with financial ruin. But state officials have largely escaped accountability for the resulting pollution.
December 24, 2019
Whatever you want to call it -- even if you just call it a lot of people enjoying nature -- the effort to understand and plan for the rising number of people driving to and hiking in the High Peaks dominated discussions among Adirondack Park advocates, municipal officials and resource managers in 2019.
November 1, 2019
The bill would direct the state Department of Transportation to test new and environmentally friendlier snow-clearing methods on state roads in the park from 2021 through 2024, and to record and report the results.
By Mike Lynch
October 4, 2019
Lawmakers are working on legislation to address road salt application by state crews, Assemblyman Billy Jones told an audience Thursday at a road salt summit in Lake Placid.
May 8, 2019
The Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith’s College collected data showing that two-thirds of the wells it tested downslope from state roads were polluted by sodium beyond the federally recommended health limit of 20 parts per million. State crews spread salt to de-ice the roads, and it ultimately spills into nearby streams and leeches into the groundwater.
October 11, 2018
New York spent about $214 million in the last snowplowing year, according to New York's Office of General Services.
October 5, 2018
New York's Department of Transportation this winter plans to test better salt management practices for 17 miles of Route 9N north from Lake George Village and 16 miles of Route 86 from Lake Placid to Wilmington.