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I-35W bridge de-icing system

Published Wednesday, August 22, 2007

This is how the automatic de-icing system on the bridge worked when it was installed in 1999. MnDOT said Wednesday that the chemical used, liquid potassium acetate, is "environmentally friendly, less corrosive to steel and concrete and has a low freeze point."