A new piece of equipment will help keep roads safe this winter.
A $150,000 brine truck arrived yesterday at the Department of Transportation office in Bridgewater.
The brine is a mixture of salt and water that they put down before a major storm to keep ice from sticking to the road.
Area Manager Glen Strang says it requires a special kind of salt from Bermuda.
“Mostly all of it desolves and makes brine,” he says. “Where as the regular rock salt, from Pugwash, there’s a lot of impurities in it so it requires more maintenance.”
The new truck can hold up to 27,000 liters of brine.
It will be used on roads in Lunenburg and Queens counties.
