If you travel along gravel roads in Milton, expect to find crews on them soon applying a liquid treatment to make your future trips a little less dusty.

 

Specifically, a mixture of water and calcium chloride will be laid down on all gravel roads. This helps lock down what’s in the roadway; this, in turn, keeps dust from kicking up whenever a car or whatever else passes by. Normally, this material suitably soaks in within a day of treatment.

 

The work could start as soon as Friday, though it is expected to last several weeks. The reason: Each tanker truck must be loaded in Augusta with this calcium solution, then driven to Milton.

 

When you account for that and the fact Milton has 13 miles of gravel roads, that means it should take around 3 weeks to get everything done. And of course, inclement weather and other factors could impact that timeline.