Council caught out using crushed brick
Discussion
Hi all,
I live in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire. Do you remember the bad Snow we had in November ( not that we could forget), well we have had this Red coloured grit substance all over the roads and paths. It isn't washing away or crushing into powder and remains the size of about 1/2 a Pea still to today. On inspection it looks like crushed up brick. Well it is, the local rag has published the fact. That is what the council has been using from an old brick making slag heap. Begs the question , how many of us drove behind and overtook a gritter spreading crushed brick. That cant be good for the paint work or the tyres.
The damn stuff is every where.Our pavements are pure Red and the kerbs are still abut 1 to 2 mm deep in the stuff. Must be a nightmare for cyclists!!!!
Anyone else had a similar experience??
Frank
I live in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire. Do you remember the bad Snow we had in November ( not that we could forget), well we have had this Red coloured grit substance all over the roads and paths. It isn't washing away or crushing into powder and remains the size of about 1/2 a Pea still to today. On inspection it looks like crushed up brick. Well it is, the local rag has published the fact. That is what the council has been using from an old brick making slag heap. Begs the question , how many of us drove behind and overtook a gritter spreading crushed brick. That cant be good for the paint work or the tyres.
The damn stuff is every where.Our pavements are pure Red and the kerbs are still abut 1 to 2 mm deep in the stuff. Must be a nightmare for cyclists!!!!
Anyone else had a similar experience??
Frank
Small stones all over the roads here. More yellow than red, but distinguishable from the black stones kicked out by all the f
king potholes. My cars are filled with the little stones, was underneath the V70, and every bit of level suface eg. suspension arms have fking small stones all over them. Not fking happy.
king potholes. My cars are filled with the little stones, was underneath the V70, and every bit of level suface eg. suspension arms have fking small stones all over them. Not fking happy.Jo Po said:
Not saying your wrong, But the new style grit they use is red. So most people who think they have brick in their street, its probably the new red grit.
I would love to think it was just grit, but its hard and dosn't seem to crushdown into powder. It feels like its been fired?? Our local paper said the council had been using crushed brick. But it seems most parts of the Clyde and Glasgow area have been using what ever it is. You have to think thats a lot of brick waste??What ever it is, they shouldn't be using it imo.
Frank
sherman said:
Linlithgow is covered in the same stuff. I did wonder why it wasnt washing away. Last year they were using some black stuff that didnt wash away either. I think that was coal ash.
Is coal ash dangerous ?I don't know how good/bad coal ash is, but people living near coal fired power stations receive more nuclear radiation than people living near a nuclear power station.
sinizter said:
Is coal ash dangerous ?
I don't know how good/bad coal ash is, but people living near coal fired power stations receive more nuclear radiation than people living near a nuclear power station.
In a 1978 paper for Science, J. P. McBride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and his colleagues looked at the uranium and thorium content of fly ash from coal-fired power plants in Tennessee and Alabama. I don't know how good/bad coal ash is, but people living near coal fired power stations receive more nuclear radiation than people living near a nuclear power station.
McBride and his co-authors estimated that individuals living near coal-fired installations are exposed to a maximum of 1.9 millirems of fly ash radiation yearly. To put these numbers in perspective, the average person encounters 360 millirems of annual "background radiation" from natural and man-made sources, including substances in Earth's crust, cosmic rays, residue from nuclear tests and smoke detectors.
Dana Christensen, associate lab director for energy and engineering at ORNL, says that health risks from radiation in coal by-products are low. "Other risks like being hit by lightning," he adds, "are three or four times greater than radiation-induced health effects from coal plants." And McBride and his co-authors emphasize that other products of coal power, like emissions of acid rain–producing sulfur dioxide and smog-forming nitrous oxide, pose greater health risks than radiation.
So no, it's not.
Sunday Rag has published the anger from the Locals, Council put out a statement which says its used "Red Blaze" for the roads and paths instead of salt grit. It also says it has no intention of cleaning it up until the bad weather has completely gone.
So its not Brick, paper published a Bum Ditt.lol
I googled Red Blaze and I think its the same stuff as football & sports pitches use. We use to call it "Red Grar"
Its a pain in the Arse, its blocking the treads on the car and making a thud thud as the wheels go around. God knows what will happen when it gets washed down the drains.
What really worries me is the amount still in the middle of the road and the effect on Motorbikes.
FRank
So its not Brick, paper published a Bum Ditt.lol
I googled Red Blaze and I think its the same stuff as football & sports pitches use. We use to call it "Red Grar"
Its a pain in the Arse, its blocking the treads on the car and making a thud thud as the wheels go around. God knows what will happen when it gets washed down the drains.
What really worries me is the amount still in the middle of the road and the effect on Motorbikes.
FRank
Edited by Sunnysidebb on Sunday 20th February 17:18
Last of my wories. 
Edinburgh used the same stuff. Basically padding out the proper road salt with crap that to this day I'm hoovering out the footwells of our cars.
Cheaper that way and makes the supply last longer. My old man had the ratios quoted by someone who was working at the mixing side of things during the winter, it made for alarming hearing, something like five to one ratio, the one being the pure rock salt that should have been going down neat.
Cheaper that way and makes the supply last longer. My old man had the ratios quoted by someone who was working at the mixing side of things during the winter, it made for alarming hearing, something like five to one ratio, the one being the pure rock salt that should have been going down neat.
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