ST. PAUL — Minnesota needs to go on a low-salt diet.
That’s the advice of the state Pollution Control Agency, which is trying to cut back the amount of salt flowing into the metro area’s lakes and rivers.
“This is getting a lot worse,” said John Stine, director of the nonprofit Freshwater Society, which fights against excessive salt use.
According to the PCA, salt from winter highway maintenance is by far the biggest source of salt pollution, and it is concentrated in the metro area’s waterways. Agency officials say that out of the 53 saltiest lakes and wetlands in the state, all except three are in the metro area.
Of those, the worst salt pollution was in Spring Lake in Spring Lake Park. Others on the top 10 list of saltiest lakes were in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Woodbury and Maplewood.
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