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Road Salt

A student collects stream sample for Fall Salt Snapshot 2025.

Train-the-Trainer Workshop: Salty Streams and Safer Streets

 1000 563 Stroud Water Research Center

A full-day workshop to prepare you to confidently facilitate professional learning and support implementation of this new curriculum throughout your region.

Diana Oviedo Vargas, Ph.D., collects biosolid samples to test for PFAS.

The Next Frontiers of Freshwater Science

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

From PFAS to road salt, science helps us discover the emerging pollutants lurking in our water and find solutions.

Workers manually spreading salt from a salt truck in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Overseasoned: Road Salt Pollution Awareness Event

 1000 563 Stroud Water Research Center

Road salt isn’t just a winter problem. It seeps into our groundwater, making streams salty and harming wildlife year-round.

Publication title with image of a mayfly

Freshwater salinization syndrome is degrading streamwater quality in the National Capital Region national parks, USA

 350 210 Stroud Water Research Center

Myers, D.T., D. Oviedo-Vargas, S. Ensign, M. Daniels, J.P. Schmit, M. Peipoch, and J. Kan. 2025. Freshwater Science 54(1): 18–30.

White Clay Creek forested reach in winter by Tim Smith.

[UPDATED] Salt Pollution Water Testing Event in West Chester

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

If you live in the West Chester area and are worried about salt pollution in your local stream, collect a water sample and bring it to be tested.

TTF Watershed Partnership staff member measuring conductivity in winter salt stream snapshot samples.

[EXTENDED] Winter Salt Snapshot 2026

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

Volunteers throughout the Delaware River watershed and beyond will sample streams to tell the story of road salt in their communities.

A TTF Watershed Partnership volunteers collecting a winter salt stream snapshot sample.

Winter Salt Week 2026

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

Join us for a week of virtual and in-person events dedicated to raising awareness around salt pollution and reduction solutions.

2025 Fall Salt Snapshot data map screenshot

What the Fall Salt Snapshot Revealed About Our Groundwater

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

Most stream sites sampled this fall exceeded at least one environmental chloride guideline — months after the last road salt was applied.

Stroud Water Research Center is an 2025 Anthem Awards Bronze Winner for the Cut the Salt campaign.

“Cut the Salt” Campaign Wins Anthem Award for Social Impact

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

The award is a testament to Stroud Center staff who help bring science and outreach to life, and would not be possible without our community of partners, volunteers, and donors.