Gravel Roads

The Gravel Road Management team is comprised of both full-time and seasonal employees. Our services provide for the maintenance of gravel roads which include grading, shaping, stabilizing, placing new gravel, washout repair, dust mitigation and snow removal throughout Weld County.
Roadway Dust Control
Dust control products are applied to aggregate (gravel) roadways to inhibit fugitive dust when the vehicle traffic count exceeds 200 vehicles per day.
The traffic count will be verified by three different counts over a period of time in which the traffic is considered to be permanent traffic from the area.
The dust control agents and soil stabilization products used by the County are environmentally-friendly, intermediate solutions to reducing dust on low-volume roads.
When a roadway segment meets the criteria for County mitigation, the County may, when practical and within budgetary constraints, select one of the following alternatives to mitigate dust:
- Surface treatment using dust control agents with a frequency of no more than two applications per year at the County’s discretion
- Six-inch stabilized aggregate base using dust control agents
- Paving, Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP), or Chip Seal
- Speed limit reduction
- Periodic watering
Roadway Stabilization
During road stabilization different materials can be used depending on the road and the problem.
The process involves watering, reclaiming, and rolling of the road.
Depending on the circumstances sometimes areas are dug out, chemical is injected and the areas are filled in with gravel, road base or asphalt millings before the road is top dressed with gravel.
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