[Music] will next winter leave us buried in snow or waiting for a chance to pull those skis out of the garage it's anyone's guess the unpredictable nature of winter also plays a factor and how much road salt the city must buy fortunately there is a new way for the city to hedge its bet while saving taxpayers money Edina TV shows us how it's done the this is our uh salt storage facility it was erected about 3 years ago capable of storing up to 5,000 tons of salt this massive pile Towers over Shan Anderson it's been a very unique season Street supervisor for the past 25 years never seen anything like it a season that didn't demand much of this coarse material means there's more to store for next year you could have one season you go through uh tons and tons of salt the next season you go through barely any with the cost approaching $80 per ton having a place to stretch that purchase over multiple seasons is a good thing the price of salt goes usually up I've never seen it go down according to Anderson the savings have almost paid for the shelter it it's a it's a facility that allows us to really stretch the budgets per year with the tonnage of salt after a season of use the leftovers and storage begin to harden it absorbs ABS water and then it gets a crust a protective shell against Summer's humidity until it's needed again we have a machine that mounts on a loader and it's called an Alo bucket and it grinds it up it's got uh like Grinders in it take it and bust it up really good that helps us put it through our trucks onto the street saving money down the road by Saving salt I'm Dan Carpenter for ad TV