PHILADELPHIA - Some of our roads look as if they’re painted white from all the salt leftover from Saturday’s storms.Road salt and parking lot salt is entering our local streams and creeks at an alarming rate says Dr.
John Jackson from the Stroud Water Research Center.Just this weekend, a stream that enters Philadelphia’s Tookany Creek had water twice as salty as ocean water at one point and water as salty as ocean water at other times.
While melting snow and rain (which is coming later this week according to FOX 29's Weather Authority) carries road, driveway, parking lot, stairwell, and sidewalk salt into our storm drains and into our local streams and creeks right away, some of that pavement salt will end up enter our waterways in the summer.Here’s how: salty water from melted snow and rain will seep into our ground.
That salt water will make it down to the pool of water that’s always below ground. This reservoir of groundwater is what wells tap into for their water source.