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Richard G.

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How many of you remember when used oil was used on roads to cut down on dust?
I remember as a kid when we would go to Myrtle Beach State Park, the sandy road going in was heavily oiled to make it more stable and stop the dust.
 
The company I worked for would put it on the driveway to keep down dust. We also had earth oil filters for the engines. An earth filter was a huge canister of sand that oil would past thru. When these filters were changed the old sand was dumped in the pot holes in the driveway.
 
(quoted from post at 06:15:26 04/06/22) Anyone remember companies hid toxic chemicals in the oil used to keep dust down?
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ust do a search for Times Beach, Mo the whole town was condemned as a result of the town's gravel streets being sprayed with waste oil over a number of years.
 
The city of International Falls got truckloads of used oil from the paper mill and spread it in the alleys in town, they were all just gravel. It sure eliminated the dust problem! I'm going to use some to spray on the walls of an old log cabin, to preserve it. We don't ever stay in it, but want to prevent it from rotting, it was built in 1931, not very old.
 
the oil sprayed in times beach was contaminated with dioxin, a by product of agent
orange production. lots of articles on it. heres a link to one.
post here
 
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(quoted from post at 06:15:26 04/06/22) Anyone remember companies hid toxic chemicals in the oil used to keep dust down?
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ust do a search for Times Beach, Mo the whole town was condemned as a result of the town's gravel streets being sprayed with waste oil over a number of years.
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It was not condemned due to the use of oil.
It and other locations were condemned because some azzholes disposed of toxic chemicals by hiring ignorant people to get rid of it.
Some decided to just mix it with used motor oil and apply it for dust control.

Back in the good old days when the epa was just getting started.
 
I just finished yesterday mixing some with 1/4 diesel fuel and applying it to the new bale rack I built.
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(quoted from post at 13:07:37 04/06/22) the oil sprayed in times beach was contaminated with dioxin, a by product of agent
orange production. lots of articles on it. heres a link to one.
post here
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ould that be a distinction without a difference, or a difference without a distinction?
 
In 1965 I would drive Times Beach and wonder with amazement.Then hear do the contamination from used transformer oil. Also up the road there was a place called Weldon Springs contaminated with nuclear waste. It was interesting to look over the chain link fence to see what had been left behind, I hear all has been cleaned up.
 
The gravel road in front on the house I lived in out side of Cleveland MS was turned from gravel to a blacktop by putting a lot of oil down on the gravel
 
Yup... Was fortunate to grow up on a blacktop road, but neighbors on gravel roads always used to oil the gravel road in front of their farms.

Now days they use calcium chloride, I think. Applied by the townships or counties. I assume it is spendy, as not as many do it now.
 
The home farm where I grew up was on a four corners. The east/west county road was paved. The north/south town road was gravel. The town would grade it and spray some oil in front of the houses. We had access to both roads. We didn't get the oil as we were a long way from the gravel road. The county road was our main access, but our driveway crossed a ravine. So, sometimes, in the winter, depending on the snow/ice situation, the back driveway was the better choice.
 
Sure do!

And it hasn't been all that long ago, I would say in thr last 20,25 years.

It's paved now, but there was a dirt road just south of here, the county would saturate it, oil would be standing in the Ditches!

Obviously a rural area, lots of stock tanks, wells, they didn't care.
 
The problem with that is that the oil was not stable enough and would leave going into the soil and on the the ........
 
Growing up near me was two farmsteads that oiled the road in front of The farmstead. One farmstead was oiled so heavy for so many years the gravel road turned hard like asphalt. The county road grader used to pick up and go over that section of the road and then continue grading.
 
The paper plants created a byproduct called lignin sulfonate (or something like that). Since it is biodegradable, it is still being used for dust control on forest roads.
 
Yep cowboy. Dioxin it was. Used in my hometown county in NEMO. Road
commissioner told me so, one time. No hazmat abatement went on
there !
 
Everything that was at the Weldon Springs site, is buried in a giant containment dome of dirt. Supposedly a water monitoring system in the drains fields. There was a rock quarry that filled with rain water over the years. Hot, heavy equipment, was left behind. Had to be pumped out to recover. Water was passed through a big magnet to remove whatever, then pumped into the Missouri river.
 
Years ago I dropped the engine oil out of the 1066 into a 5 gallon bucket. Later that day, before I had a chance to spread the oil on the road, some breeding heifers knocked down a gate and got out. I saw one heifer with her nose stuck in the bucket and I thought she was smelling it, when I looked into the bucket I could see that she drank at least 2 gallons of oil. This was back in the days of leaded gasoline and the vets initial response was "She's going to die of lead poisoning." But when I told him the oil was out of the diesel tractor he thought she might be okay. She was really loose for a few days but I had her for years afterward and she raised a calf every year.
 
It was soon found, however, that Bliss had a contract to haul waste from a plant in Verona, Missouribelonging to Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company and Hoffman-Taffwhere they manufactured Agent Orange for Vietnam as well as hexachlorophene, a disinfectant which fell into disuse after being tied to dozens of deaths in the United States and France. This waste infected his motor oil with the toxic and carcinogenic chemical known as dioxin. It was a mixture of industrial waste and motor oil that Bliss had been spraying on the lots and roads of Times Beach, Missouri from 1972-76.


Wastewater from oil and gas wells that is spread on unpaved roads to control dust contains high levels of the carcinogenic element radium, inorganic salts, and oil and gas hydrocarbons. A new study shows that these harmful components are likely leaching off roads into surrounding soils and water

Where was Barney?

A dairy farm in county next to mine all the cows died from contaminate oil put on roads..
 
East Texas did it for as long as I can remember up till I guess the EPA stopped the practice. Not sure as to the type, could have been raw well, crude oil in some instances, especially arround Beaumont, site of Spindle Top well, first of its kind and pin point of an oil bonanza. Longview area had lots of drilling too, just to name a couple.
 
Used as brush killer on the sides of the roads, that is, not on the roads for dust control.
 
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