Representatives from Pacific Enzymes Inc., Sacramento, Calif., have been overseeing the treatment of 84th Street Northwest, beginning at Williams County Road 17 and stretching two miles west, with a product known as Permazyme.How much you wanna bet that if this works, this will be another first for North Dakota to share with other parts of the country. I really have to hand it to our folks in North Dakota to "work" solutions. I don't see much hand-wringing or complaining in the local newspapers; I certainly see a lot of ideas to solve problems, from man camps for influx of workers to molasses to lengthen life of gravel roads.
Bob Johnson, a senior advisor and road specialist for Pacific Enzymes, said the soil stabilization product could be a potential solution to the region's dirt and gravel roads.
"It's revolutionary in that it's a food byproduct we're using to bind with clay material in the road base," said Johnson.
[Update, October 16, 2010: in response to a comment below, I checked out Pacific Enzymes website. It looks pretty impressive. One more reason I love following the Bakken.]
