ODOT explains this year's snow control plan

LISBON — The forthcoming miserable winter weather is being taken on by new technology.

The Ohio Department of Transportation is promoting its “smart salt strategy” in part as a response to high road salt costs.

Rock salt was $40.19 a ton last year, but will cost ODOT $72.89 a ton this year because of damage to salt mines.

Rock salt has been the best thing to fight snow and ice since the 1930s, according ODOT spokeswoman Becky McCarty.

But both Ohio and Pennsylvania began to modernize their approach to snow removal several years ago.

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