Description: Salt is widely used in the winter during impervious surface maintenance operations. However, did you know that salt is also a damaging and pervasive pollutant that is often over-applied? Attend this event to hear Mr. Greg Sandi from the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) talk about the state's efforts to reduce salt pollution.
MDE’s Integrated Water Planning Program (IWPP) is proposing to create a voluntary program that will provide training and certify commercial applicators to become experts in the process of applying salt to impervious surfaces surrounding homes, county facilities, and commercial properties. This Program will be a hybrid of Minnesota and New Hampshire’s efforts and would give property owners greater incentive to use a Maryland certified commercial applicators in winter operations.
Read more about the environmental concerns surrounding salt here: https://mde.maryland.gov/programs/Marylander/Pages/roadSalt.aspx
Greg Sandi is Head of the Chesapeake Restoration Section at Maryland Department of the Environment. This position serves in the Integrated Water Planning Program as lead in the Water Quality Trading Program for MDE, working with State and local partners throughout Maryland developing watershed restoration plans, managing Best Management Practice data, tracking and evaluating the Chesapeake Bay Model inputs and outputs. The main focus of Greg's position is to enhance water quality and ecological uplift in the State’s aquatic ecosystems. Greg received his B.S. in Environmental Management st University of Maryland University College and his Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy from John’s Hopkins University.