Ouray County commissioners got some hands-on show-and-tell at a work session on county road maintenance with Road and Bridge Superintendent Ty Barger on July 21.

Barger brought samples of what he referred to as pucks, which were bricks he had baked in his oven all night with blends of dust control agents. He also brought jars of the liquid agents and jars of rocks for visual aids.

Commissioners were able to pour water onto the pucks to see how they responded to water. The goal is to find a product...