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pai re A TIS OT td AOE ee re Simcoe County - On a well travelled stretch of gravel road in Oro Township last week, a load of liquid calcium chloride was dumped on Fred Haughton, free of charge. Fred Haughton is the road super- visor for Oro Township. While he was attending the Good Roads Convention in Toronto this Spring he entered and won a contest General Chemical was holding - a free tanker load of liquid calcium chloride. He took possession of his prize last May 19 and, under the super- vision of Larry Postill from General Chemical, Mr. Haughton used part of it to stabilize a section of Oro Sideroad No. 5. The remainder was used as dust control on an ad- jacent section of the same road. The rest of the road was left alone. "General Chemical attends the Ontario Good Roads Convention held every Spring in Toronto," says Larry Postill, General Chemical rep for the area. "'For the griculture Update past four years, we have been do- ing some promotional work.there for stabilized roads and that in- volves giving away a free load of calcium chloride. When Fred won this year, we thought we would take advantage of the situation to show the neighboring townships what road stabilization was all about."' About 25 road supervisors from neighboring townships, as well as a couple of Councilors from Oro Township, turned up for the demonstration. Personal presenta- tions were made to Fred Haughton and runner-up Bill Newman, from Mara Township, at the new Oro Township offices on Sideroad No. 7. After that everyone adjourned to the site to watch the application of the calcium chloride. A few hundred yards in from Highway 11 on Oro Sideroad No. 5 a short stretch received a sprinkl- ing of calcium chloride for dust control. Immediately adjacent to that stretch a heavier dose was hip tri given to the stabilized section. About a mile later, another section was given the lighter, dust contro application. The section of the road to be stabilized has been first prepared by laying down some 2,000 tons of fresh gravel carefully tested to en- sure it met Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communica- tions standards. Then it was carefully graded and shpaed to give it the proper crown. When the tanker truck came, three passes were made - one for each 12-foot lane and a third down the centre, overlapping the previous two applications. The total application of calcium chloride amounted to less than 1 per cent by weight of gravel. Finaly, a vibratory compactor was rolled over the road to pack down the gravel. "One of the reasons we wanted to stabilized this particular section of road, is because we've had pro- blems here in the past," says Fred Haughton. Even now that we've added the gravel and calcium chloride, we're looking for soft spots. 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