The Missouri Department of Transportation's Darren Hamelink says they’re fully stocked and ready for the winter season.
"I mean, in a typical winter, we'll probably use 100 to 150,000 tons of salt," Hamelink says. "And then just salt brine, which is just a mixture of water and salt, is we use about a million and a half to 2 million gallons per season.
And then, Hamelink adds, there’s the beet juice as well that gets stocked up for MoDOT crews.
"And the beet juice is probably in the range of a couple 100,000 gallons a year," Hamelink explains. "And really the brine and the beet juice, just typically we use that as an anti-icing, we put that down in advance of the storm just to prevent that snow and ice from bonding to the pavement. And that's key. It's kind of like
MODOT budgets about $50 million per year for winter operations. There's no snow in the forecast, but cooler weather and frosty conditions hit the area over the weekend.
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