ReLeaf Webinar: Road Salt and Street Trees
Friday, November 1, 2024, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
REGISTRATION LINK: https://meetny.webex.com/weblink/register/r458047ce7db3a080440fc383a38a0c1e
Salt is a critical chemical for road and side walk safety in northern climates during wintry weather conditions. However these same streets, side walks, and parking lots are also the battleground where cities strive to build green infrastructures for canopy coverage, stormwater management and aesthetics.
Green Stormwater Infrastructures are particularly prone to salt damages because it is designed to take the first flush of stormwater runoff from the streets, parking lots and sidewalks where salt usage is by truck loads. It is all too common to observe the damages and casualties on roadsides in spring, when plants start to display the impacts of salt through discoloration and canopy loss. At this stage, it is often too late to remedy and correct the damaged plants.
Join us to hear from Wei Zhang of Zynnovation LLC and the Institute of Soil Genomics to hear about the issues around road salt and potential ways to reduce the damages.