What are the best ways to deal with icy sidewalks?

Did you ever think about what happens to the thousands of tons of salt that is applied to roads, parking lots and sidewalks?  Most of it ends up in our lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. As a result, clean water in the Twin Cities is in jeopardy. Watch this new video, Improved Winter Maintenance: Good Choices for Clean Water to learn about tools, techniques and products that you can use to keep your driveways and sidewalks safe AND protect our waters. To watch it, visit this link or go to YouTube.com and type in MWMOvideo . Two St. Anthony Park people are featured in the video - Dr. Karlyn Eckman, University of Minnesota Water Resource Center and Steve Garfield from Noll Hardware.