At work the salt we use is mined in Avery Island, Louisiana and then loaded on barges and shipped up the Mississippi River to Lemont, Illinois, a suburb about 14 miles south-west of Midway Airport.

Once it reaches Lemont the salt is offloaded and treated with magnesium chloride and food grade molasses.

After the salt is treated it is loaded back onto the barges until orders are received from the various municipalities. It is then scooped back off of the barges and into the big tractor-trailer dump trucks and delivered.