Ultradog MN said: (quoted from post at 03:57:49 06/09/08) It is sometimes LEGALLY used for dust control on gravel roads, as it seems to draw moisture out of the air and clumping the dust.
Someone told me recently that the stuff they use on the roads is Potassium chloride not calcium chloride. Dunno.
Any of the three (calcium, potassium & magnesium chloride) are concentrated salt solutions so the effects are pretty much the same.
Here in Colo. they use magnesium chloride for de-icing and dust control. Like RobMD said it's killing everything on the sides of the roads including pine, spruce, juniper trees and bushes. It also eats brake parts, frames, fenders, wire insulation, etc. The road guys are supposed to be in full haz-mat regalia when they are filling the truck tanks. Back when I was driving 18s we went to PVC gloves since the repeated exposure caused by getting your 'chain-up' leather gloves soaked in the stuff would cause your hands to blister. If it's that bad for the outside of humans it's anybody's guess as to what it does to the insides of anything drinking the runoff from the roads. The trout here have been diagnosed with 'whirling' disease in the past 10-15 years .... about the same timeframe that they have been using the mag-chloride ..... ??? They have actually forced the county, state and city from using it in and around Aspen ..... too hard on the all of the Mercedes Benz grocery getters over there I reckon. :-)
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