Assessing the Impact of the ODOT Winter Salt Pilot Project on Neighboring Streams and Groundwater

Currently, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is unable to easily determine whether winter application of road deicers may lead to acute chloride exceedances in local streams of the Siskiyou Pass, or contamination of local groundwater sources. This proposed research aims to provide ODOT with both a deicer application management tool for predicting chloride exceedances in local stream water, as well as a pilot study to better understand and account for chloride fate in local groundwater systems from deicing applications.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $362000
• Contract Numbers:

  SPR 812

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Oregon Department of Transportation

  555 13th Street NE
  Salem, OR  United States  97301
• Project Managers:

  Lazarus, Jon

• Performing Organizations:

  U.S. Geological Survey

  Oregon Water Science Center
  2130 SW 5th Avenue
  Portland, OR  United States  97201
• Principal Investigators:

  Stonewall, Adam

• Start Date: 20171001
• Expected Completion Date: 20221231
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: Transportation, Planning, Research, and Development

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Chlorides; Deicing chemicals; Environmental impacts; Groundwater; Pilot studies; Salts; Streams
• Identifier Terms: Oregon Department of Transportation
• Geographic Terms: Siskiyou Pass (Oregon)
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01658868
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Oregon Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: SPR 812
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 1 2018 4:36PM