Hi Tyler.

Oregon uses gravel and on occasion a magnesium chloride de-icer.  Rumor had it that they were going to try sodium chloride over the Siskyous on i-5, but I don’t know that anything ever came of it.

ODOT actually has a pretty good website detailing such: https://tripcheck.com/Pages/winter-road-maintenance.asp#

Welcome to Oregon!

Jim

> On Dec 2, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Tyler Hardison <tyler@SERAPH-NET.NET> wrote:
> 
> I'm relocating to Bend, OR to take a new position. Given that they get
> snow, do I have to worry about salt on the roads? Or do they use sand like
> California?

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