ESSIC / Geol Associate Professor Sujay Kaushal was cited in a Washington Post article on how heavy usage of road salt this past Winter has resulted in brown tap water in Montgomery County, Maryland. Kaushal noted that higher-sodium water is more likely to disturb manganese sediment on pipe walls, which in turn discolors water.
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