After record snowfall, not a lick of salt left for Northern Utah roads

Cache County is scrambling for salt to clear the roads — and the money to pay for it.

After facing nearly non-stop snowstorms, Matt Sprague, a snow plow driver, said this is the first year the county has run out of salt.

“We have been going through more salt this year than any other year,” Sprague said. “The plow drivers have been working 18-hour days to find more salt and to clear the roads.”

Steven Thomas, another snowplow driver for Cache County, said there is not enough salt in Northern Utah bays. As a result, drivers have been making a four-hour-round-trip drive to Grantsville just for salt.

“We are out of salt all the way to Ogden,” Thomas said. “Because of the shortage, keeping up with the snow has been a challenge this winter season.”

Cache County Council members said they used up their entire annual salt budget in the first month of the year.

“We never expected this to happen, so we are taking money from different places to fund the salt,” council member Greg Merrill said.

Council members said Cache County residents shouldn’t worry, though; county officials are working hard to get salt back into the local bays.