Our general winter maintenance training can be tailored to your audience and the length of time available. Whether you are an environmental professional wanting to learn more about the subject or a snow plow driver who maintains roads, the message is the same. There is a lot we can all do to improve the situation. We offer a motivational talk filled with interesting facts and suggestions for keeping the roads, parking lots, sidewalks safe and our lakes and rivers too. We can bring you Minnesota's new application rate charts for roads, parking lots and sidewalks. We intend to help you with your job and train you to educate others as well. The outline for training includes topics such as: The power you have today, to make changes, to protect our water forever. How does winter maintenance affect our lakes and rivers. How do de-icers and abrasives work The best management practices for winter maintenance Anti-icing and de-icing Cost savings tips The power of winter maintenance professionals is enormous. They are one of the few groups of people that can change the future of our water. One teaspoon of road salt will contaminate 5 gallons of water enough to exceed our federal chronic limit for chlorides. One tandem load of 10 yards of salt will contaminate about 8 million gallons of water. All of the salt we have applied to the roads over the years is still with us, only in our water. It is time to make some changes. Starting now we can all be part of the solution. 215 Hamel Road, Hamel, Minnesota 55340 ~ phone 763-478-3606 ~ fax 763-478-3612 info@fortinconsulting.com