Many of us fail to realize this, but common road dirt plus the soil erosion from a farmer’s field can harm our respiratory and overall health. On an unpaved road that has no dust control process applied, it's estimated that just one mile of travel using a vehicle creates one ton of dust in one year. That particles can fly up to five-hundred feet in the air, permeating homes and make being outdoors less pleasant.

If you live in a rural area that has a lot of unpaved and untreated roads, you might find that you are washing your vehicle in frequent intervals and vacuuming the inside for dust control. If you don’t, your overall health may be affected. Many of the particles can contain chemicals utilised in weed control or fertilization from farm fields or automotive fluid loss that are hazardous for humans to ingest. If those particles are ingested in the lungs they can lead to several severe respiratory issues.

A solution is to speak to a haul road dust control service to find out the costs of dust control on personal drives or roads, as well as to present a estimate for your local road commission authorities to be able to negotiate a solution. The road dust companies will be very willing to work with a municipality in solving dust problems, suggesting ongoing treatment in order to reduce the health threats to neighborhood residents. Additionally, they could propose that roads with heavy traffic be addressed with longer lasting treatments, like some variety of a “chip and seal” process that looks like asphalt after some traffic has packed it down. For lesser traveled roads, a long term treatment is used which prevents dust from flying up as a vehicle passes through.

No matter what option is chosen, you should know that choices are there to cure the dust problem. Consulting one of these soil permeability companies is a good way of getting an idea of costs along with the many solutions and options they provide.