This is because the sugary juice makes salt stick to the roads longer. The agency keeps about 6,000 gallons of the stuff on hand, mixed with 24,000 gallons of salt brine. While beet juice doesn ...

That's 242,000 gallons of the nutritious substance used ... has been solving its road ice problem with the help of beet juice. The product in question, Geomelt, is a sugar beet-based liquid ...

If you drive around the city and you notice the roads are not as icy, you can thank the city’s street department and its Beet Heet Concentrate. Beet Heet Concentrate juice, or CS27 as it is called now ...

Beet Heet Concentrate juice, or CS27 as it is called now ... The city street department stores its CS27 in one 3,000 gallon tank and two 5,000 gallon tanks in the back of its facility.