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Rural neighborhoods can use mag chloride to stabilize gravel roads with county approval

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20 Mar, 2012

Larimer County and privately hired road crews were in those ranks until about five years ago when the county banned the use after consulting with Colorado State University and learning that the substance is toxic to trees.

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