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Sugar in Ozarks Watersheds?

Jacqueline Froelich

Winter road crews in Northwest Arkansas are increasingly mixing beet sugar, an alternative de-icing ingredient, in with rock salt. But what happens when all that sugar runs into local creeks?

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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