snow days

mean a lot of cars are kept off the streets. whoohoo. and a lot of businesses dont open. whoohoo. but it also means salt on the roads, which actually has some detrimental environmental side effects. like chloride spikes in groundwater. and increasing salinity in our freshwater supply.. saltwater only works for the marine ecosystems. salt is sodium chloride, and the chloride spikes in freshwater are responsible for wildlife and vegetative killoffs. and roadside vegetation kill offs from the salt stealing the plants' water.


http://www.cee.vt.edu/ewr/environmental/teach/gwprimer/roadsalt/roadsalt.html

http://www.ecostudies.org/images/newsletter/winter_2005.pdf

3am is too late to start researching this, but its another idea for my senior seminar class. nobody will be talking about that for sure. im also considering the great pacific gyre, war pollution, cloud seeding. any other ideas? presentation day=feb 17th. i actually care and want to do a decent job unlike any presentation given thus far in my schooling.