Dunn County has spent nearly $200,000 to have a contractor apply liquid magnesium chloride in about 70 hard-hit locations in that county, about one-third of that amount this year alone.
The county has about 900 miles of road; 300 of those are considered heavily impacted by oil development.
In Dunn County, the magnesium chloride solution is applied to roads running alongside farmsteads to help improve the quality of life for those people, but it turns out for some of them, life is not that good.