Salt Watch— Safe Roads & Clean Water
How over salting roads not only leads to rusty cars, but kills fish, and pollutes our drinking water long-term!
Abby Hileman— Salt Watch Coordinator, Izaak Walton League of America
Learn more about why and how properly salting roads, parking lots, and walkways can ensure safe roads and clean water. Winter road salt, which usually contains chloride, has long-term negative health impacts on our local waterways and the environment.
IWL’s Salt Watch Coordinator Abby Hileman shares additional information about how Salt Watch works and why it’s so important that people get involved and start advocating for this program in their communities.
In her role, Abby leads the efforts of the Salt Watch program, expanding the project into new regions across the country, reaching new groups of volunteers, and providing resources to make lasting change—from data to action. Abby received her BS in Biology at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. She has a passion for connecting people to their communities and to nature and believes that small scale actions add up to make a big impact on conservation success.
Watershed Talks ~ This monthly series is a project of the Iowa Division of the Izaak Walton League of America, with rotating co-hosts from other Iowa Chapters. We feature guests for 30-40 minute presentations that shed daylight on good works done in Iowa watersheds. In this way we uplift our shared goals for cleaner water, a healthy environment, and kinder communities. Recorded programs will be available at iowaikes.com shortly after they air live.
Our 2024 Watershed Talks continue to focus and highlight the legacy of the Izaak Walton League as one of America’s first conservation organizations leading significant conservation policy— one hundred years ago the League was the driving force behind the creation of the Upper Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, which protects wildlife habitat along 261 miles of the river in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.