Frequent snowstorms in the Capital Region this year has led to some local cities with a road salt shortage.

And with multiple winter storms in the forecast, Troy’s Mayor Mantello issued a State of Emergency Thursday calling it a “statewide shortage of road salt.”

The mayor writes “Due to chronic mining and manufacturing delays as well as increase frequency of winter weather events across the state, the supplier, American Rock Salt, has not been able to keep up with the demands of municipalities under the state contract.”

Troy is not the only city seeing this, so is Watervliet.

NewsChannel 13 spoke with Joseph LaCivita, the general manager for the City of Watervliet, who said that there almost at their limit.

“We’re about 600 tons per year and we’re almost at our maximum, LaCivita said.

He said they just got a delivery on Wednesday and hopes that it will last them through the rest of the winter. LaCivita said if it doesn’t the city will be forced to get salt nearby municipalities or buy it at the market rate.

“We don’t cut back. We make sure everyone is safe to travel through the city, LaCivita said.

The salt shortage is also having an impact on local business including DeLollo’s Hardware.

“A bag of our regular bag of rock salt has gone from, I think, $7.99 to $15.00. So, it’s jumped quite a lot,” said a DeLollo’s employee.