One of the annoyances of camping at Cornerstone is the unbelievable amount of dust that is kicked up. It gets into every pour of your being and leaves a fine powdery coat on every piece of camping equipment and possession you have.
Water trucks run every couple of hours, trickling their constact streams of water to keep the dust down. It's better than nothing, but it can only go so far to remedy the situation. As I followed the lumbering water truck down the road one morning to the community showers, I remembered as a child in the country how some communities put down a layer of used motor oil on the dusty gravel roads to keep the dirty haze to a minimum. But I realized, that 40 years later, in our hyper-environmentally-aware culture, this wouldn't fly. People are not as accepting of oil spills these days - nasty connotations of oil-drenched birds and fish and all, with crude oil crud washing up on and covering formerly pristine shores.
So while happily following that crazy stream of conciousness on the web called hyper-links, I happened upon this information on a product that is made from the oil waste produced when processing soybeans. It's biodegradeable, so it seems perfect for Cornerstone's dust problem. I hope somebody responsible for handling this problem will see this article and check out the product. Hopefully, it would be cheaper than all the water trucks they have to hire to keep down the dust, and would do a better and more thorough job of it, too.
Check it out -
Environmental Dust Control
