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from "Peter Andrews" contains these words:

My Hotpoint salt dispenser is always full of water that's how the salt gets
into the wash.

The salt never actually gets into the wash. It's used as brine to flush
the water softener. The outflow from that should go straight down the
drain.

This is why DW tablets with "salt action" don't make much sense.

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