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Bruce[_28_]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 19:53:53 -0500, wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:01:35 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>
>>On 2019-02-12 2:02 p.m., wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, really. In town and also on the highways they are using the
>>> pre-brining solution, very successfully, but wells don't abut
>>> highways.
>>Okay, they are using brine instead of salt. The brine is salt. They are
>>still using salt, but less of it.
>>
>>
>>> It would also depend on whether your well is a dug or drilled well,
>>> still many dug wells operating happily in NS.
>>
>>My well is dug. It probably picks up more salt from me salting my
>>sidewalk than it does from the road.
>
>You can't be living rural if you have sidewalks, even most of
>surburbia here has no sidewalks... only urbanites have sidewalks. No
>rural canucks have sidewalks. Most of rural and surburban Canada has
>no paved roads let alone sidewalks.

I never see a sidewalk unless I drive to town. We're on a sealed road,
though. It's full of sealed potholes.