#CINDERS FLAGSTAFF WEATHER PRO#
There are arguments both pro and con on this issue. Other cities are experiencing the same issues and many that had switched to salt are now returning back to cinders or sand. You may have seen damage to your concrete driveway. We also now know that city salt is killing pine trees on private property. Salt is showing up in the Rio de Flag riverbeds and in drainage channels and in the soil along the roads. The pine trees along city roadways are dying from a 1,000 percent increase in salt in their needles. We see that happening in Flagstaff today. What the Council didn’t know at the time was that the salt would kill pine trees and ruin concrete. So in 2007 the City Council decided to switch from cinders to salt. It was “cleaner” than cinders, which are dusty and clog storm drains. Conventional wisdom was that salt worked better for de-icing the roads. At that time, the City Council (before my tenure) was told that a sodium solution was superior to cinders and that many western cold-weather cities were changing to salt.
“Never buy a used car from Michigan, its underside will be rotted from salt.”īut things changed six years ago. Back then we even criticized the states that used salt. They were messy and a nuisance to clean up, but they worked. In my first 36 years in Flagstaff, cinders were the norm.
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