Tulsa World
By KYLE ARNOLD World Staff Writer
Published: 10/27/20112:29 AM
Last Modified: 10/27/20114:58 AM
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is gearing up for winter weather in a big way - by doubling its salt supplies with a new storage facility at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa.
The governing board of the Tulsa Port of Catoosa has approved construction of a new 50,000-square-foot building that will hold 50,000 to 60,000 tons of the salt.
ODOT's 80,000-square-foot building will cost about $3.1 million and is being built by the port. The port in turn will lease the building back to the state under a 20-year agreement.
"It will double our salt storage capacity," said Casey Shell, ODOT's director of operations. The state has about 140,000 tons of winter storm supplies stored in areas across the state, divided almost equally between sand and salt.
The state has never come close to running out of salt storage supplies, but Shell said ODOT is preparing in the event of a particularly harsh winter sometime in the future... FULL ARTICLE
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Thu, October 27, 2011
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