The Lower Minnesota Collaborative Chloride Reduction Grant program offers financial support and resources for businesses and local government units for tools and practices which reduce, directly or indirectly, chloride usage by that organization. An example of equipment that improves efficiency and reduces salt application is a pre-wetting system. The pre-wetting system includes tanks and hardware that spray (pre-wetting) dry salt as it is applied to the pavement. This improves the efficiency of the salt application and ultimately reduces how much salt is needed. 

As the City of Shakopee replaces its snow plow fleet, new snow plows are equipped with the pre-wetting systems. Currently, the city has 12 snow plows which do not have this equipment, and it will take 10 years to phase in new snow plows that will have the pre-wetting equipment. The grant is to help fund three pre-wetting systems, which includes the tank, hardware and labor to install onto existing snow plows that do not have this technology.

The three pre-wetting systems has a total project cost of $22,932. The grant requires a match of 25% which is $5,733 and would be paid for by the Surface Water Fund. The total grant request is for $17,199.