Municipal liability for road salt contamination Save article Remove saved article

Municipalities across Canada use road salt to keep ice off our roads in the winter. Approximately five million tonnes of road salt is released into the environment every year.₁ Unfortunately, in sufficient concentrations, road salts can harm plants, animals, and the aquatic environment. To date, claims against municipalities and provinces for the environmental harm that road salt can cause have been rare. However, in a recent Ontario case, Steadman v. Corporation of the County of