Salty runoff from winter roads has impacts on water supply

ACROSS THE NORTHWOODS - Traveling this winter may have been impossible without road salt but all that salt must go somewhere. When the snow melts it often goes into our streams and rivers. That salty runoff can cause problems with smaller streams. Full story: WJFW

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