Importance of maintaining salt sheds
By Canton CitizenDear Editor:
With the help of Troop 77 scouts and scouters along with members of the community at large, I was able to execute my Eagle project at the DPW garage last summer. The Eagle project consisted of painting a significant number of fire hydrants off of main roads and painting the salt shed. The salt shed holds winter street salt during the other three seasons of the year. It is very important to have the salt stored under a permanent roof because it is water soluble.
Because salt dissolves in water, it can get into natural water supplies. Water sheds are underground natural water storages. The acting agents in the winter salt are pollutants and can contaminate these water sheds. To prevent this wide-scale pollution from occurring, it is important to keep the maintenance of town salt sheds up to par. You may have noticed another attempt to help the town prevent water pollution when we painted “No Dumping” on the town’s drains.
Water pollution is a huge problem in today’s society because we don’t always think about the consequences of our actions on nature. Boy Scouts of America has developed a slogan that embodies the efforts made in our troop’s Eagle projects: “Leave No Trace.”
Sincerely,
Eagle Candidate Vicente Chappuzeau
Former Senior Patrol Leader, Troop 77
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Posted by Canton Citizen
on May 16 2013. Filed under From One Citizen to Another, Opinion.
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