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Road Salt and Environmental Hazards—Identification of Vulnerable Water Resources

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The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) just finished a four year research and development project, entitled: “Salt SMART”. The objective has been that the NPRA’s effort to maintain ease of passage and traffic safety during winter, shall not result in unacceptable effects to the environment. To solve this, areas vulnerable to road salt within Norway has been identified. In this paper, a flowchart method to identify water resources vulnerable to road salt has been presented. Readily accessible data or methods, produced in the Salt SMART project have been used. The results have been processed and presented in a GIS (Geographic Information System).

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  1. Environmental Assessment Section, Norwegian Public Roads Administration, PO Box 8142 Dep, 0033, Oslo, Norway

    Kjersti Wike Kronvall

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  1. Dept of Civil and Env. Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Sébastien Rauch

  2. Dept of Civil and Env. Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Gregory Morrison

  3. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Stefan Norra

  4. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Nina Schleicher

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Kronvall, K. (2013). Road Salt and Environmental Hazards—Identification of Vulnerable Water Resources. In: Rauch, S., Morrison, G., Norra, S., Schleicher, N. (eds) Urban Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7756-9_41

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