Ohio EPA awards $1.9 million to improve salting roads
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced the $1.9 million funding initiative as part of Gov. Mike DeWine's efforts to clean up Ohio waterways.
This is part of the third round of funding through the H2Ohio Rivers Chloride Reduction Grant Program, which aims to reduce the amount of road salt that runs off into our waterways.
Funding will go toward making salt trucks more efficient, helping them use less salt to cover more area.
One local mayor is excited to see the impact from this funding.
'This helps us reduce some of our salt usage. And it's also less salt going into our environment, which is very useful,' said Eaton Mayor Matt Venable. 'It's money that we wouldn't have had in our budget to outfit this truck, but with the gracious grant from the EPA, we're now able to finish these trucks up and have all our trucks with the same controls.'
Since the program began in 2023, DeWine's program has awarded more than $6 million to 117 communities in 52 Ohio counties.
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