Mild Winter has Kent Running out of Salt Storage
City has used a fraction of the salt it is required to buy via an ODOT contract
The so-far mild winter in Northeast Ohio means Kent has only used a fraction of the road salt it has in stock, and the city's salt dome is literally overflowing with extra. It sounds like a good problem to have — unless you're required by contract to buy even more salt than you can store. Kent Service Director Gene Roberts said the city started this winter off with a full salt barn of 4,800 tons (max capacity is 5,000 tons) thanks to last year's mild winter, which saw the city use little road salt. "We have used 400 tons to date this winter," Roberts said in an email. That's less than 10 percent of the city's salt reserves used half way through the winter. Like many Northeast Ohio communities, Kent contracts with the Ohio Department of …
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7:46 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013
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