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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018
ODOT will expand use of salt
on dangerous winter roads
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
Oregon Department of Transportation
Test results suggest using salt can reduce weather-relat-
ed crashes.
U.S. 95 in southeastern Oregon
between Nevada and Idaho that
was tested as part of the pilot
program.
Since the 1990s, the state
has used a liquid chemical
deicer, which isn’t always
enough to keep snow and ice
from bonding to pavement,
ODOT says.
The state has largely
Oregon State Treasury pushes gun
safety reforms on manufacturers
Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon has
joined a coalition of states
intent on changing how they
invest money in the firearms
industry to push gun safety
reforms.
The Statesman Journal
reports the move by the Ore-
gon State Treasury — which
manages the multi-billion-dol-
lar Oregon Public Employees
Retirement Fund — reflects
an increased level of scrutiny
for gun-related manufacturers
not just from the halls of Con-
gress, but from low-profile
corners of state government
that seek to influence how the
industry does business.
The coalition’s invest-
ing principles support uni-
versal background checks,
safer technology for firearms
and training for gun retail
employees.
The principles aren’t a set
of rules that forbid any invest-
ment in the industry. Instead,
they are a broader framework
for investors doing business
with companies.
Oregon joins California,
Connecticut, Florida, Maine
and Maryland in the coali-
tion. In their entirety, member
states manage more than $4.8
trillion, much of it for govern-
ment retirees.
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diversified investment port-
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not believe the current path is
sustainable.”
The Oregon pension fund’s
investment in the firearms and
munitions manufacturing sec-
tor is a tiny part of the state’s
overall portfolio — just a frac-
tion of 1 percent. The fund has
positions in four companies
with a net value that was less
than $7 million in November
2017, when the state last ran
a report on its holdings in the
firearms sector.
At the time, the fund’s total
assets were about $78 billion,
Treasury officials said.
Kevin Starrett, director
of the Oregon Firearms Fed-
eration, said Read’s actions
are “typical of Oregon and
Democrats.”
“They think if we don’t
invest in companies that are
firearms-related, we’re going
to hurt them somehow, but all
they do is make their stocks
available to other people like
me,” Starrett said. “It’s what
Oregon Democrats are about.
It’s symbolism and show and
amounts to nothing.”
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for the Oregon Department of
Transportation. “The salt was
really effective, and still we
wanted to minimize its use.”
ODOT will have salt on
hand for the first 100 miles
of the freeway north of Cali-
fornia, on 200 miles of Inter-
state 84 and in hilly parts of
the Portland metro area, as
well as a 121-mile stretch of
PROFESSIONAL
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SALEM — Chance of
snow? Expect a sprinkling of
salt too.
On the first eleven miles of
Interstate 5 north of the Califor-
nia border, the average number
of winter crashes dropped from
115 to 54 after the state’s trans-
portation department started
using solid salt on a trial basis.
Because of the apparent
success of that pilot program
and directives from the Legis-
lature, the state will continue
to use salt sparingly on some
major roadways this winter.
While it can be difficult to
peg the exact cause of crashes,
and the figures fluctuate from
year to year, officials found that
the two areas they tested as part
of a pilot program from 2012 to
2017 saw a decline in crashes
after they tried salt.
“It was amazing to see,” said
Dave Thompson, a spokesman
avoided solid salt, which can
have deleterious environmen-
tal effects and is expensive to
store. Solid salt has the same
chemical composition —
sodium chloride — as table
salt.
Salt, through road runoff,
can make its way into surface
water, groundwater and soil,
which can make it harder for
plants to absorb water. It can
also corrode roads, bridges and
vehicles more quickly.
But salt can also be very
effective, especially in cer-
tain conditions, like freez-
ing rain, which the transpor-
tation agency says is growing
more common in Oregon. Salt
will be just one component of
the state’s winter maintenance
plans.
Through the five years of
the pilot program, the depart-
ment wanted to see whether
a small amount of salt could
improve highway conditions
and cut down on serious and
fatal crashes.
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