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Question

In the winter, grass often dies near roads that have been salted to remove ice. What causes this to happen?

Answer 1

Too much salt causes the water to turn acidic, and the grass roots can't feed.

Answer 2

The salt is put down to absorb the water to stop it forming into ice, causing it to be slippery. When it is near grass it absorbs that water that the grass needs, meaning the grass dies due to lack of water.

Plus, Grass usually dies in winter because of frost, if it is cold enough to put salt down it is probably cold enough to cause frost.

Answer 3

The grass doesn't like the road salt. Road salt contains chloride as well as other elements, such as phosphorus, nitrogen, copper and even cyanide. A form of cyanide is added to road salt as anti-caking agent.

You can read more here...
http://www.cwp.org/rr_photos/jan05/snowandsalt.pdf

Answer 4

um, obviously if it dies near salted areas, the salt is the stuff that's killin it.

Salt dries out things, so the salt is absorbing the water out of the grass, thus making the grass dry out and die.

Answer 5

This may be because the chemicals in the ice/road salt hurts the grass and kills it.

Answer 6

if the road salt is strong enough to crack the tar of the road, it is almost certainly lethal to a living growing thing like grass

Answer 7

It's because the grass doesn't have any french fries to put the salt on. They die of starvation.

Answer 8

salt dries up the plant. because the high salinity of the soil draws water out of the plant and into the soil. Essentially it prevents osmosis from occuring in the direction of the plant because the salt content of the soil is higher than that of the plant.

Answer 9

the salt dries out the grass and kills it

Answer 10

i study it in school you will fall and hurt yourself or if you in a car you will get and car crash or run off the road...and the Salted makes the ice melt