Changes

==Site Design Strategies for Salt Reduction==

==Site Design Strategies for Salt Reduction==

In 2017, LSRCA and its partner agencies developed the [https://www.lsrca.on.ca/Shared%20Documents/Parking-Lot-Design-Guidelines/Parking-Lot-Guidelines-Salt-Reduction.pdf Parking Lot Design Guidelines]<ref>Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority. 2017. Parking Lot Design Guidelines to Promote Salt Reduction. GHD|11115623|Report No. 2| February 22 2017. https://www.lsrca.on.ca/Shared%20Documents/Parking-Lot-Design-Guidelines/Parking-Lot-Guidelines-Salt-Reduction.pdf</ref> that can be used by designers, regulatory agencies, property owners, contractors, and others to implement design elements within parking lots and related infrastructure that help limit the need for salt. The [https://www.lsrca.on.ca/parking-lot-guidelines web page for the initiative] includes the full guideline report, a fact sheet and a municipal policy template to facilitate incorporation of guidelines into municipal policy. The report identified four key design strategies.  

In 2017, LSRCA and its partner agencies developed the [https://www.lsrca.on.ca/Shared%20Documents/Parking-Lot-Design-Guidelines/Parking-Lot-Guidelines-Salt-Reduction.pdf Parking Lot Design Guidelines]<ref name="example8">Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority. 2017. Parking Lot Design Guidelines to Promote Salt Reduction. GHD|11115623|Report No. 2| February 22 2017. https://www.lsrca.on.ca/Shared%20Documents/Parking-Lot-Design-Guidelines/Parking-Lot-Guidelines-Salt-Reduction.pdf</ref> that can be used by designers, regulatory agencies, property owners, contractors, and others to implement design elements within parking lots and related infrastructure that help limit the need for salt. The [https://www.lsrca.on.ca/parking-lot-guidelines web page for the initiative] includes the full guideline report, a fact sheet and a municipal policy template to facilitate incorporation of guidelines into municipal policy. The report identified four key design strategies.  

===Effective Grading===

===Effective Grading===

*In [[winter]] months salt should be applied efficiently along the top of slopes to allow melting snow to carry the salt solution down-gradient.

*In [[winter]] months salt should be applied efficiently along the top of slopes to allow melting snow to carry the salt solution down-gradient.

*Effective [[grading]] can also direct melt water towards strategically placed stormwater collection infrastructure (i.e. [[Overflow|catch basins]], [[Swales|vegetated swales]], [[bioretention]] features, [[Rain garden|landscaped areas]]), preventing salt application in heavy traffic areas that are also pathways for runoff.

*Effective [[grading]] can also direct melt water towards strategically placed stormwater collection infrastructure (i.e. [[Overflow|catch basins]], [[Swales|vegetated swales]], [[bioretention]] features, [[Rain garden|landscaped areas]]), preventing salt application in heavy traffic areas that are also pathways for runoff.

*The key to effective stormwater collection during winter is to ensure that melt water from high traffic areas or snow piles does not have to travel great distances to a collection point.<ref>LSRCA. 2015.Parking Lot Design Guidelines to Promote Salt Reduction. GHD. 11115623 (2). https://www.lsrca.on.ca/Shared%20Documents/Parking-Lot-Design-Guidelines/Parking-Lot-Guidelines-Salt-Reduction.pdf</ref>.

*The key to effective stormwater collection during winter is to ensure that melt water from high traffic areas or snow piles does not have to travel great distances to a collection point.<ref name="example8 /">

===Snow Pile Location===

===Snow Pile Location===