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Clean Water, Safe Roads Partnership” Launched to Reduce Road Salt Contamination in the Lake Champlain Basin
by Community News Reports Adirondack communities within the Lake Champlain Basin are invited to join a new Clean Water, Safe Roads Partnership to reduce road salt use by adopting improved winter road maintenance techniques. The Clean Water, Safe Roads Partnership will...
Hague is ‘clearly a leader’ in road salt reduction
Hague plow operators Tim Fiallo, left, and Ernie Trudeau stand in front of one of their plow trucks. Photo by Zachary Matson After years of brine, indicators are seen in water quality By Zachary Matson (see full article here) The small crew at the Hague Highway...
Gov. Hochul Fills Road Salt Task Force Seats
Authors: AARON CERBONE AND LAUREN YATES: Adirondack Daily Enterprise With first deadline missed, members plan to catch up on reducing road salt. Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed members to the Adirondack Road Salt Task Force on Thursday, more than two weeks after the...
Trends For Snow Contractors To Watch
Article By ANNE COSGROVE, (Photo: Adobe Stock Christian Delbert) Virtually every industry has been changed by the pandemic. From minor inconveniences due to a change in protocol to major disruptions in livelihoods, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed industries and...
Government Sector And Green Services
Photo Credit: Getty Images In this increasingly post-COVID age of opportunities, you may be thinking: How can I maintain my landscape and turf management business while also growing new client relationships? The answer may lie in government and municipal work. Why?...
DEC Launches Campaign to Encourage Visitors to ‘Love Our NY Lands,’ Practice Sustainable Recreation
This Article Was Written By The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. https://www.dec.ny.gov/press/123007.html Outreach and Education Campaign Supports Goals of Adirondack High Peaks and Catskills Advisory Groups These Lands Belong to All of Us and...
45th NCLC Wraps, Team Competition Winners Named
Shasta College won the Team Spirit Photo Contest.Photo: Leimone Waite The 45th National Collegiate Landscape Competition (NCLC) wrapped up last week and more than 1,000 people participated in the event including 600 students from 40 schools and...
New Film Documents Lake George Road Salt Reduction
By LUCAS WILLARD As part of an effort to reduce the use of road salt in the Adirondacks, the FUND For Lake George has released a film to demonstrate how communities in the Lake George Basin have been able to use new technology to save money and protect the...
The FUND for Lake George traces road to less road salt in film showcasing lakeside towns
by: Jay Petrequin LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The FUND for Lake George has spent five years pushing different ways to reduce the use of road salt around Lake George, for both environmental and cost reasons. That work has caused towns like Lake George and Hague to...
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