Though the cleanup from last weekend's monster snowstorm involved less-than-usual amounts of salt, the salt that was used could end up reaching streams and increasing their salinity.
Sujay Kaushal, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, studies streams and has looked at salt levels in freshwater streams. He found that when there's more pavement - roads, parking lots, sidewalks - there's a greater rise in salinity in local...
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