Private and Rural Road Dust Control

Dow Chemical’s Liquidow™ Calcium Chloride and Cargill’s Dust-Off® Magnesium Chloride are two of the most effective products available today. Both of these products work in conjunction with the moisture in the atmosphere to trap dust particles and reduce dust generated by traffic on crushed rock roads.

Increase Safety, Reduce Costs

Dust on unpaved surfaces can create dangerous and unhealthy conditions, and drain your maintenance budget.

• Dust clouds reduce visibility for drivers.
• As an unpaved surface emits dust, the surface deteriorates over time, producing loose aggregate (stones and gravel), potholes, ridges and ruts.
• Loose aggregate can damage vehicles by causing cracked windshields, chipped paint, broken headlights, and damaged shock and suspension systems.
• Numerous scientific studies link exposure to dust particles with increased respiratory symptoms, decreased lung function, development of chronic bronchitis, and other health problems. (www.epa.gov)
• Excessive dust results in complaints from area residents and businesses about dangerous driving conditions and dust accumulation on their clothes and vehicles, and in their homes and recreational areas.
• Surface deterioration leads to repetitive and costly maintenance work such as spot repairs, frequent bladings and aggregate replacements.

The application of Liquidow™ Calcium Chloride, typically in a concentration of 38 percent, can solve these problems and dramatically lower road-maintenance costs.

Individuals on farms and acreages or private developments located on crushed rock roads can contract with us to have either calcium or magnesium chloride applied to the road as a dust suppressant.

Application of dust suppressant on public roads is made in coordination with your local municipal road departments.

Jerico Services, Inc., headquartered in Indianola, Iowa has been a leader in the dust control industry for over thirty years using Liquidow™ Calcium Chloride and magnesium chloride. We provide quality dust control programs for private companies as well as city, county, and state entities in over forty counties throughout Iowa. Our Weeping Water, Nebraska location provides this same high level of service for our customers in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska.

LIQUIDOW™ Calcium Chloride is produced from a naturally-occurring, underground brine that has been refined to remove impurities. Calcium chloride:

• Doesn’t form a crust or fragment under traffic like some oils and emulsions.
• Requires a lower application rate than magnesium chloride.
• Doesn’t become slippery when wet or brittle when dry like lignin sulfonate.
• Has fewer impurities and more predictable performance than unprocessed brines.
  

The performance, residual stabilizing effects and cost effectiveness of LIQUIDOW™ calcium chloride give it substantial advantages over competing products in dust-control applications.

Hit the Road With LIQUIDOW™ Calcium Chloride LIQUIDOW™ Calcium Chloride is the only dust-control product with a 100-year track record of proven performance. Dealing with Dow, you also get the advantages our customers have come to expect for more than a century: reliable supply, consistent quality, quick response and leading technical service and support. So contact a LIQUIDOW™ Calcium Chloride distributor today, and discover more about this clearly superior product for lower-cost, higher-value dust control.

"The lifetime of aggregate was doubled"

"Blading frequency decreased
by about 50 percent"

Commercial Parking Lots and Interior Roadways

Many businesses benefit from having their parking lots or frontage roads treated to suppress the dust. Your customers and neighbors will appreciate the reduced volume of dust that can be associated with vehicle traffic on heavily traveled roadways.

Calcium chloride reduces your maintenance costs. Since calcium and magnesium chloride treated lots and roads requires less maintenance than areas left untreated you can save on the cost of replacement material, labor, equipment and fuel.

 
Municipal Applications
Detours and heavily traveled roads may be hazardous without an application of calcium of magnesium chloride. City, county and state parks also benefit by providing a safer environment for their users. Additionally, park users will be able to enjoy the full use of the park and its services.

Benefits of using calcium or magnesium chloride to municipalities are:

• Minimizes the loss of aggregate fines
• Aids in roadway compaction allowing more traffic
• Reduces maintenance and aggregate replacement costs
• An alternative to the more expensive asphalt millings