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Midwest - Preserve Unpaved Roads
Midwest Dust Control and Fines Preservation Solutions preserves critical fines to maintain road durability and as-constructed quality. Reinforce Your Road’s Structural Integrity. Fines are an unpaved road’s glue. Midwest keeps them in place. As a pioneer and leader in the protection of America’s unpaved roads, Midwest knows it’s not enough to simply control fugitive dust. You must also preserve the critical fine particles by keeping them in place to prevent surface deterioration and maintain road stability.
You can be proactive with Midwest’s proprietary Dust Control and Fines Preservation Solutions. By not settling for temporary surface measures, Midwest technology innovations give you the perfect complement of short-term and long-term, tackling both immediate and underlying problems.
Implementing dust control measures on unpaved roads is fundamental for maintaining healthy air quality, enhancing visibility, and ensuring the overall safety of drivers. Vehicle traffic generates significant amounts of fugitive dust on unpaved roads. Traditional dust control measures only react to visible dust issues to reduce the amount of airborne particles generated by vehicle traffic. While these measures are effective at reducing dust emissions, they offer limited improvements to the overall condition of the road itself.
Fines Preservation is more than just dust control.Traditional dust control methods are effective for short-term dust suppression, but often require frequent reapplication, especially in dry climates. Fines Preservation, on the other hand, focuses on maintaining the road’s structural integrity by preserving fine particles, keeping them locked within the road structure to deliver long-term benefits and reduced maintenance.
Unlike traditional dust suppressants, Midwest’s Fines Preservation binds dust particles to the surface, addressing the root causes and proactively preventing them from becoming dislodged and airborne dust. The Midwest Fines Preservation program is designed to maintain unpaved surfaces, minimizing dust while preserving fine particles and aggregate. This enhances surface stability, safety, and longevity, reduces maintenance costs, and supports environmental protection. This approach offers a more sustainable, durable, and effective method compared to conventional dust control.
- Performance duration
- Impact on road quality
- Environmental impact
- Maintenance requirements
- Cost over time
- To reduce airborne dust temporarily
- Short-term, requires frequent reapplication
- Immediate but temporary reduction in dust
- Can be high due to the frequent use of water and chemicals
- Often requires frequent road maintenance work to maintain the condition of the road
- Generally lower initial cost, but higher maintenance costs
- To maintain the integrity of the road by preserving the fine particles where they belong
- Long-term, with less frequent maintenance
- Sustained reduction in dust and improved road durability
- Designed to minimize environmental impact
- Minimizes routine and frequent road maintenance activities
- Higher initial cost, but lower long-term maintenance costs
Fines Preservation programs by Midwest are backed by decades of experience, data, and rigorous testing from the U.S. EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, USGS, universities, and scientific organizations. Midwest delivers reliable results, proven by independent agencies and third-party testing.
Here are the main performance benefits of midwest fines preservation.- Eliminates dust emissions
- Maintains surface condition and quality
- Preserves both aggregate and fines
- Improves performance and durability
- Reduces maintenance work
- Protects from traffic and erosion
- Improves surface drainage
- Improves surface strength and stiffness