I weighed the salt that I could readily collect from the underside of the car
after getting home--25#. This probably represented 50-80% of what was on when
I got home (the rest being disolved in the runoff from my careful underchassis
hosing at home). This after first spraying off (at the West Wendover
hand-wand carwash) an estimated 50-80% of what was on there to begin with,
then driving home about 800 miles including 100 miles of dirt roads in Nevada
over several days. So I'll guestimate that 20-50% of what was left after the
hand-wand job fell off in transit. That means my van hauled between a low
limit estimate of 78 pounds and a high limit estimate of 500 (!) pounds of
salt off the flats. Multiply this by 500 competitors with an average of, say,
6 vehicles per crew, and that amounts to 117 to 750 tons of salt removed per
event (and that doesn't include workers or spectators). This would be the
equivalent of between 4 and 25 semi-trailers at 30 tons per. Is this a drop
in the lake vis-a-vis the potash extraction operation, or should we be
concerned about it?
Benn
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