A plan to use 10% less road salt as part of a pilot project notwithstanding, the New York State Department of Transportation still spreads roughly 290 tons of the stuff every winter on the highway along Lake George’s west shore. The Lake George Mirror reports not only has the DOT continued to deposit the same amount of salt on Route 9N that it has every winter since 1980, it failed to reduce the use of salt on state highways throughout the Lake George basin, said Navitsky