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Episode 58: The Wisconsin salt brine project

Talkin Winter Ops

English - March 07, 2022 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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SICOP Talks WInter Ops with Andrea Bill from the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as she discusses the latest research into use of salt brine. 

Wisconsin DOT has been working hard to promote the use of liquids in winter maintenance operations.  In 2021, the results of a 2-year research project into the use of salt brine was published.  Andrea Bill presented this work at the 2022 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting and in this episode describes the work and results of this study showing very positive results for the use of salt brine.

You can view the presentation  "WisDOT Salt Brine Project 2020-2021”

For detailed information check out The Salt Brine Final Report Final Report

If you would like to discuss this project, results, or other aspects of salt brine in Wisconsin with Andrea you can email her directly at  [email protected]

Other podcast episodes on liquids:
Episode 12: “Taking liquids to the max”
Episode 41: “The latest word on alternate methods for deicing”

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