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| From F&A Dairy's web site. |
Here’s a great story about my Loveless Lake tax dollars at work. (Since I can’t vote, the least I can do is support progressive thinking wherever I can find it.)
According to a recent story on WCCO-TV, Polk County officials have found a new use for the briny waste water from the F & A Dairy plant in nearby Dresser, Wis. As it happens, the salty byproduct works wonders in melting winter ice off of the roads.
For the past four years, the county has been experimenting with the cheese whey – remember Little Miss Muffet? – and discovered that it’s cheaper and more effective than the magnesium chloride that normally gets mixed with the salt before getting spread on roads.
F & A Dairy, which we drive by on the way to the weeHouse, churns out 5,000 gallons of the brine waste a month, according to the report. It charges Polk County 9 cents a gallon to haul it away.
The county said it has cut its use of salt by about a third, and saved taxpayers $40,000 by substituting the brine water.
“It’s a win-win for both us and the dairy,” Polk County’s Mike Norby told the TV station. “They get rid of their waste product and we get it for free, for just the trucking costs.”
Rock on, Cheese Heads!
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