The Salt Management Plan sets out a policy and procedural framework for ensuring that the City of Barrie continuously improves the management of road salt used in winter maintenance operations. It is based on a comprehensive comparison of past practices against best management practices. The plan sets out specific goals for improving the City’s salt management practices.
Any modifications to the City’s winter maintenance activities must be carried out in a way that continues to provide road and sidewalk safety and user mobility. The City is committed to exploring new technologies and practices in winter maintenance activities to reduce the amount of salt entering the environment, while ensuring safety is not compromised.
The Salt Management Plan is dynamic, allowing the City to explore and implement new approaches and technologies in a way that is responsive to fiscal demands and the need to ensure that roadway safety is not compromised. The plan is reviewed annually and updated as needed, as well as when new technologies or practices are added or changed.
The following winter maintenance activities are covered under this plan:
- Weather monitoring
- Winter event
- Loader scale
- Salt and sand (loading, storage, application)
- Anti-Icing
- Pre-wetting
- Salt brine production and storage
- Treated salt use and storage
- Organic anti-icing/de-icing liquids
- Material tracking
- Snow storage and disposal liquids
Watch the May 14, 2025, presentation about a salt management update to the Infrastructure & Community Investment Committee: