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Nosara plans to cover its streets in molasses to combat dust

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A local resident carries a bucket of molasses and some material with which to spread it on the roadway. Businesses and homeowners in Nosara are being asked to invest in gallons of molasses to control the district's problem with road dust. (Photo: Adam Dietrich / La Voz de Guanacaste)

A local resident carries a bucket of molasses and some material with which to spread it on the roadway. Businesses and homeowners in Nosara are being asked to invest in gallons of molasses to control the district’s problem with road dust. (Photo: Adam Dietrich / La Voz de Guanacaste)

December 12th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Nosara community leaders plan to pour molasses over the district’s roads to combat a serious problem with road dust, which especially affects the area during the early part of the year, La Voz de Guanacaste reports.

 

The Nosara Leadership Forum is seeking financing from residents to pour the molasses during the first four months of 2015, when the problem is at its worst.

 

So far, the Nosara Civic Association said it is willing to donate $5,000, which would be enough to cover an area from La Esperanza to the intersection of Santa Marta for the first month.

 

The Nosara Leadership Forum has agreed to form a “Pro Molasses” working group, which will define which roads should be covered in molasses, according to La Voz.

 

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  • Yeims

    Nosara is right there on the beach; it would be much better and a hell of a lot cheaper to spray the roads with a light coating of ocean water. After a couple of sprayings there will be enough fine salt mixed in the dust to keep it from flying: salt, of course, is hygroscopic and attracts moisture. A very light moisture is sufficient to keep the dust from flying. This has worked out well in various places in the world.

    • Edgar Sanchez

      My God someone else that has some critical thinking. I mean really, Molasses? There is no help for some folks.

    • toolman78

      Would you really want to be dusting the undercarriage of your vehicle with salt? I know I wouldn’t. Coming from Michigan, I can tell you that it’s a bad idea.

      • Yeims

        Not really. Just the night and early morning air there on the beach is highly laden with salt. Just take a peek at an air conditioner there. The salts used to melt ice are applied very heavily and are quite different than sea salt. A light spray of ocean water doesn’t contain enough salt to even kill the grass or weeds. I didn’t know that Michigan and Costa Rica were so similar. So they put salt on gravel roads there in Michigan?

        • toolman78

          I have no experience as to the amount of salt needed to keep the dust down. But my guess is that it would take more than your suggesting. And yes, the houses really close to the surf have serious problems with corrosion. The similarity that I was referring to was that Michigan does apply salt to the roads in winter (rock salt which is chemically nearly identical to sea salt)

          and it rusts cars in a matter of years.

    • Joe1047

      I live in the Nicoya area and some people do use water. But they also have to apply it a few times daily. Hardly efficient when you are talking the area they are trying to do. It would take a water truck everyday, a driver for at least a few hours a day, maintenance, marchamo, etc. Hardly a solution.

  • Ginger Morris

    SAVE THE MONEY AND PUT A LIGHT TAR ON THE ROADS IDIOTS! HOW ABOUT JUST A NICE ROAD.

    MADDING THIS KIND OF THINKING.

    • Joe1047

      What is so wrong with Molasses? I have seen it work quite well. Its a lot easier to clean off of a vehicle than tar and smells better. As far as environmental impact, probably safe to say that it is going to have much less of an impact than tar.

      Why do you call them idiots? They are just citizens of the town looking for a solution from only donations because the municipality of Nicoya does nothing to help the communities on the coast that are in their canton.

  • lazymainer

    I hope they do an environmental impact study…I’d say, things are going to get a little bit sticky in Nosara..pun intended

  • paul schmidt

    On the gravel roads of the U.S.Midwest they would spray a calcium chloride solution. Cheap and plentiful and safe.

  • yellie

    They have been doing this for years in Malpais and Santa Teresa, over and over again…

  • paul schmidt

    I am with Joe. The picture is worth thousand words.Looks to me like it would work .
    What could be more plentiful in cane country if it is not made into guaro.

  • mhogan

    Desperate times call for desperate measures. Who cares how the residents solve the dust problem. It’s better than the government workers paid to maintain the roads who plump their useless, fat asses on a stool in the local cantina watching someone else do the job.

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