Chita City Hall explains 'stones' on roads after gritting
The press service of Chita administration explained that the stones appearing on city roads after anti-icing gritting are nothing other than compacted soil. The city hall provided this comment to Chita.Ru on February 2.
Large stones began appearing on roads in central Chita and its outskirts after they were gritted with sand. These stones fly into neighboring cars, and one Chita resident even had her windshield damaged. Eyewitnesses reported stones on roads at GRES, Babushkina Street, General Belik Street, Lenin Street, and Rakhov Street to Chita.Ru.
«Contractor organizations handle the mechanized gritting of streets. In the Central and Zheleznodorozhny districts, the Municipal Budgetary Institution »DMRSU« is operating. The gritting is done with crushed stone screening,» the press service reported.
Crushed stone screening is a construction material obtained during the processing of dense rock into crushed stone. It consists of fine fractions up to 5 millimeters in size, which are formed as a byproduct of rock crushing.
The city hall also explained that crushed stone screening is loaded into the gritting machine through a metal mesh, so the inclusion of stones is impossible. However, the screening can compact in some cases, but these are not stones, but compacted soil that breaks apart relatively quickly.
Moreover, if you take such compacted soil in your palm and squeeze with all your might, it does not crumble and feels very dense.
