MPCA Smart Salting for Rural Roads Training January 13
- Shelby Roberts
- 2 days ago
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This MPCA Smart Salting for Rural Roads Trainings offers winter maintenance professionals ways to save money, time, and reduce salt safely!
The Lower Minnesota River East Watershed partnership, including the counties and SWCD's of Scott, Le Sueur, and Rice, are teaming up to host a free certification for road maintenance professionals on the basics of rural road maintenance.
Tuesday, January 13
8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
American Legion Post 108
This MPCA Smart Salting for Rural Roads Certification Training offers efficient road maintenance best practices for those who primarily maintain roads that do not require quick bare pavement levels of service for winter maintenance including gravel roads.
The training will also cover dust suppressants and water softening for communities that may be getting a chloride limit at their Wastewater Treatment Facility. Participants will learn how to integrate science with practical winter maintenance on roads while minimizing impacts on the environment.
Who should attend:
City, county, township staff or contractors.
Private winter maintenance contractors and staff
Those who supervise winter maintenance professionals
Wastewater permittees getting a chloride limit
What you'll learn:
Environmental impacts of chloride
Policy
Plowing and physical removal
Equipment calibration
Materials application rates
Use real-time weather condition information
BMPs for storing materials
Gravel road maintenance
Water softening basics
The MPCA Smart Salting Certification test will be offered at the end of training. Those that pass will be listed on the MPCA Smart Salting Training webpage. The certification is valid for five years.
Lunch will be provided to workshop attendees.
The workshop is free, but registration is requested. Register via the link below or by calling Shelby Roberts at the Scott SWCD office at 952-492-5448.
