Tracking Road Salt to Protect Adirondack Streams
Each winter, road salt helps keep Adirondack roads safe. When the snow melts, that salt can wash into nearby streams and groundwater, where it can persist for decades and harm…
AdkAction’s “Don’t Be Salty” Campaign Inspires Statewide Action
Our Don’t Be Salty ADK and Don’t Be Salty Lake Champlain public outreach initiatives are making waves beyond the Adirondacks! This winter, they will transform into the Don’t Be Salty NY program, led by the NYS…
Don’t Be Salty: AdkAction Launches Road Salt Reduction Campaign to Protect Lake Champlain
This winter, AdkAction is launching a new public outreach campaign aimed at reducing the environmental damage caused by excessive road salt use in the Lake Champlain Basin. The campaign will…
AdkAction’s Sawyer Bailey Testifies on Reducing Road Salt Pollution at NYS Budget Hearing
Sawyer Bailey, Executive Director of AdkAction, testified at the February 6th NY State Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2025 Executive Budget Proposal for Transportation, emphasizing the urgent need to reduce…
Road Salt Q & A
Guest Author Mikala L’Hote, Graduate Research Assistant with the Adirondack Watershed Institute, shares answers to some of the commonly asked questions about road salt: What is road salt? Also known…
Executive Director Sawyer Bailey Testifies Before NYS Senate & Assembly
On January 24, AdkAction Executive Director Sawyer Bailey testified at the NY State Legislature Joint Budget Hearing on Transportation. She shared some of the negative impacts overuse of road salt…