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"Milwaukee's mayor the city is ready to do battle with snow no matter how much the city gets.On average, the cost is about $6 million a year for snow removal, but it has been as high as $14 million.The Bay View area has been selected for a new snow removal project.VIDEO: Milwaukee to experiment with cheese brine for snow removalMayor Tom Barrett Thursday introduced a first-time experiment that will mix cheese brine with rock salt on the roads there.The salt trucks and plows are ready to go, and this winter Milwaukee is conducting an experiment. It will mix cheese brine with salt. The brine is a liquid waste product used in cheese making and will be sprinkled on the roads simultaneously with salt.\"Anytime that we are using a pre-wet agent either Cheese Brine or calcium chloride agent it's to activate the salt to try and make it work at colder temperatures,\" Milwaukee Street Operations Manager Jeffrey Tews said.It's also intended make the salt more effective by keeping it from bouncing off the streets. This is a pilot program for the city and will be first tested in Bay View area only.\"It will run approximately from Lincoln Avenue to Oklahoma, from Kinnickinnic Avenue east to South Shore Drive,\" Milwaukee Sanitation Manager Mary Gengsch said.\"I was always interested in an alternate way of having street salt,\" said David Lucas, who works in Bay View.Lucas delivers papers and flyers to businesses near Lincoln and Kinnickinnic avenues. He's happy about Bay View being the first to test it.\"The only other type of deicing that I've heard of was like beet juice, which seems real impractical, so hearing about this one I'm like I want to learn more about it,\" Lucas said.The mayor said it's an experiment, but one that makes sense. The brine will come from the Dresser Farm in Polk County, where it is already being used on the roads. The only cost will be for transportation and distribution.\"We thought, 'Well, let's give it a shot.' The investment in this project is $1,474,\" Barrett said.The mayor is also reminding residents to do their part by observing the snow parking restrictions that took effect the first of the month."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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