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"Waukesha County crews will be treating nearly 2,500 miles of roads with a special ingredient that comes from a vegetable during this week's snow.WISN 12 News reporter Hillary Mintz explains why their new salt mix is good for the health of your car and roads.It's not exactly the beets you're used to on your plate, but the Waukesha County Department of Public Works garage is using a sugar beet bi-produc to protect drivers when roads get slick.\"We started experimenting with beet juice actually as an anti-icing technique by mixing salt brine with beet juice to get the brine to stick to the road a little bit better when we spray it for icing,\" said Pete Chladil of the Waukesha Department of Public Works.The mixture is 80 percent brine and 20 percent beet juice, creating a dark color.Chladil said the juice is cheaper than calcium chloride and less damaging to bridge decks and cars.The beet juice is stored on the truck. It goes through a system that mixes it with the salt. It then goes through a spinner and is the applied to the road.By wetting the salt first, Chladil said it helps the salt stick better to the roads. It's the first winter the county has used the beet juice, and they like what they see.\"So far, the guys like it on their truck. They see it work faster on the roads,\" Chladil said.Waukesha County DPW said it has plenty of salt stock left for any future storms, and their snow budget is in good shape."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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