Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
PULLMAN – Last week on Estes Road and Beeson Cut-Off Road, commuter routes from Viola to Pullman, County Public Works crews field-tested a new road surface product.
The not-yet-available item comes from Enviro-Tech of Greeley, Colo., with a distributor in Post Falls.
A Public Works crew last Tuesday and Wednesday, July 28-29, watered a half-mile stretch of the two roads, and once saturated, tore up the surface with a road grader and added the not-yet-named treatment material, mixing it into the road material, laying it down and compacting.
Brandon Kruger, operations manager for Whitman County’s road maintenance division, is happy with what has transpired, comparing it to regular results using magnesium chloride.
“You can already tell it’s holding better, but how long it lasts will be the testament,” Kruger said. “We’ll wait and see.”
In another experiment, the county road crew used an on-the-market Enviro-Tech product called “Dura-Blend” to mix with magnesium choride.
The two tests aim to keep Estes and Beeseon Cut-Off roads in better condition between gradings.
“I would love to see these two stretches of road hold until the fall rains come,” said Kruger.
Garth Meyer is a former Whitman County Gazette reporter.
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