With the support of Andrew Lynch, AICP, Transportation Planner at the Wausau Metropolitan Planning Organization, and the UniverCity Alliance, students in the Nelson Institute Community Environmental Scholars Program researched road salt
practices in the Wausau Metropolitan Area during Spring Semester 2021. Four University of Wisconsin-Madison students participated in the project through their enrollment in Environmental Studies 317, the Community and Environmental Scholars Program Seminar course.
Over several months, we reached out to the cities of Wausau, Mosinee, and Schofield, the villages of Kronenwetter, Maine, Rothschild, and Weston, the towns of Weston, Rib Mountain, Stettin, and Wausau, and the Marathon County administration to gather information for this document. We do not have complete information for all the communities, but instead have gathered some initial data that may begin to offer a sense of the different municipalities practices, needs, and concerns around road salt use in Marathon County. Missing data may be our failure to collect that information and does not necessarily imply the municipality does not have/know the information. We were unable to contact the Village of Rothschild, the Village of Weston and the Town of Wausau.
UniverCity Year Contact Info
Gavin Luter
Managing Director
gavin@cows.org
608-261-1141