Much depends on what they are using for "salt", what the soil drainage is like, what kind of growing season you have, what your soil PH is, and what types of trees. Around here in NY, we have acid soil and hard maples are the first to die from road salt. Salt is sodium chloride mined from under the great lakes.
As far as never heard of water wells going bad? I don't know what to say to that. There have been entire villages in NY with ruined wells. In fact, State of NY had a special vote last year, to break its own constitution and allow a village in the Adirondacks to drill new wells on forest preserve land, since all the town wells were ruined by road salt.
Back to trees, the most senstive to road salt are:
red maple (Acer rubrum) sugar maple (A. saccharum) hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) black walnut (Juglans nigra) Norway spruce (Picea abies) white spruce (P. glauca) white pine (Pinus strobus) Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) pin oak (Quercus palustris) littleleaf linden (Tilia cordata)
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