SEVEN HILLS, Ohio -- It was roughly 15 years ago when Seven Hills equipped a vehicle with brine tanks and a distribution system. Now after the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded ...

it works well to prevent snow and ice from bonding with the road surface, but costs around $2.60 per gallon. This fall the city bought a new brine-solution making machine called the Brine Extreme ...

Similar to traditional rock salt, brine can melt ice at temperatures as low as -6°F (-21°C). And it beats salt in another respect: Prewetting with this substance prevents snow and ice from ...

but billions more are spent repairing damage to motorists' vehicles caused by a common ice-melt solution. The heavy coating of brine sprayed on roads and highways before a storm to keep drivers ...

the ice doesn't set. We get a warm-up the next day. The water evaporates. And we're good to go again." GDOT crews began filling brine tanks at the Forest Park facility, making 60,000 gallons an ...

MADISON (WLUK) -- Liquid brine clears highways of ice faster, provides better friction on roads and reduces overall salt usage, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study. Researchers ...

Rather than using solid salt to de-ice the roads ... In addition to the brine-making equipment, he said the city also now has multiple trucks with 1,200-gallon brine tanks that will allow it to apply ...

In many cases, brine is made with magnesium chloride. Magnesium chloride is a salt like the more familiar sodium chloride crystals or rock salt, but it melts ice at lower temperatures ...

Ramsey said. "Prior to that and all during, of course, any ice and snow, we'll be laying out the liquid on the bridges." Ramsey said the salty brine solution will not only be quicker to spread on ...

The Georgia Department of Transportation is mobilizing to prevent potential snow and ice from disrupting travel ... northwest Georgia, our brine tanks are all full," Schulman said.