MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, AR (KAIT) - Mississippi County is one of the only Region 8 counties without a gravel pit, according to the road department. This shortage of gravel has the road department using ...

Steel slag is currently utilized both to treat wastewater, and as a concrete aggregate. New research now indicates that using it for the former makes it perform even better as the latter – so the same ...

In line with government’s ‘Waste to Wealth’ mission and encouraging environmentally sustainable National Highways construction, trial use of ‘Steel Slag’ in road construction has been initiated by ...

Officials in an eastern Iowa county have suspended the use of a waste material on gravel roads because of concerns it could be harmful, especially to children. The Muscatine Journal reports that ...

TYLER, TX (KLTV) -With winter comes the possibility of ice and snow. The City of Tyler is once again preparing for slick roads and has found a replacement for the “slag” used during last winter’s icy ...

Dust from a steel byproduct used to cover gravel roads in Muscatine County, Iowa, may be harmful to kids' health, a new report finds. Slag, a byproduct of steel manufacturing, has been used to ...

MUSCATINE, Ia. — An eastern Iowa county has stopped using slag as the gravel on its roads, at least temporarily, because a state toxicologist reported that the steel manufacturing byproduct could be ...