KDOT says it’s been nearly a decade since they’ve used this much salt

Crews with both the Kansas Department of Transportation and the Missouri Department of Transportation have had one busy winter so far and it isn’t over yet.

KDOT says crews have used more than 87,600 tons of salt so far in 2019, already more than all of 2018, which didn’t see very much snow until the end of the year in November and December. (See graphic below)

In fact, according to KDOT, the amount of salt this year is the most they have had to use to treat roads since before 2010.

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