Weather Wednesday: brine and brew making process In this Weather Wednesday we look into the similarities between making salt brine for the roads and brews.

PennDOT crews showed Newswatch 16 how they make salt brine and how they use it.

East Providence will treat its streets with a salt brine ahead of this weekend's storm. (WJAR) East Providence officials say they do have the option of using regular salt if needed too.

One 12-ounce cup of rock salt is enough to cover 10 sidewalk squares or 20 feet of driveway. “A little bit of salt goes a long way,” Hammer said.

Cities across the U.S. are turning to some sweet science to help keep roads clear in the winter. They’re adding beet juice or beet molasses, byproducts of making sugar, to their salt brine.

Every year, the roads across America are flooded with plows that spray rock salt across our highways to clear ice and snow. And every year, questions are raised about the effectiveness of salt and ...

DOT Engineer Blake Jacobs says his crews are in charge of creating a brine, which is a solution of salt and water and spraying it across roads in our region. “We call it our anti-icing process.,” ...

Recent winter storms led North Carolina crews to spray more than a million gallons of salt brine on roads in central North Carolina.