| Overall Rating | Bronze - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 38.61 |
| Liaison | Douglas Alexander |
| Submission Date | Feb. 19, 2012 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Old Dominion University
OP-T2-22: Snow and Ice Removal
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.25 / 0.25 |
Krista
Harrell-Blair ODU Sustainability Intern for STARS Environmental Health & Safety |
Has the institution implemented technologies or strategies to reduce the environmental impacts of snow and ice removal?:
A brief description of the snow and ice removal program, policy, or practice:
Snow and Ice removal on campus is primarily a manual task. In the event of snow and ice removal, all of Facilities Management Staff is deployed with an array of snow shovels, power sweepers, snow plows, and ice melt spreaders to clean up the accumulation as soon as possible. Our primary agent for ice melt is based upon Potassium Chloride. Potassium Chloride is a common chemical compound used in ice melts and is considered to be ‘vegetation friendly’; it does not present some of the environmental issues seen with sodium chloride (true road salt has a negative effect when introduced to estuaries) or with calcium chloride (effective ice melt which has a negative stress upon evergreen plants). ODU has experimented with liquid de-ice products which were effective and do not require a combustion driven machine to apply them, however these products are too costly to deploy on a regular basis so their use is limited.
The website URL where information about the program, policy, or practice is available:
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