Soapy streets in Wolfeboro????

[pmj]

Ok, I know I am getting up there in years, as are my brain cells.. but I was driving through Woilfeboro today while it was raining and about a 2 mile stretch of Rt 28 northeast of the center of Wolfeboro and a stretch to the south apeared to be laced with white foamy stuff that sure looked like soap.
Then I got to the Alton Circle and saw the same thing for just a short distance. Was it my imagination or are they street cleaning with detergent :emb: ????????????????????????

[Ropetow]

I was coming back from western Maine (Greenwood) today and saw the same thing on the roads in Lovell, Fryeburg, Conway, Eaton, Madison, Freedom, etc. Is this a new 'clean highways' policy?

[Captain Zipper]

I don't think you're going crazy.

We had a rain storm here in CT. the other day and I was driving along and I too noticed the white stuff. I had stopped at a stop sign that was on a hill and when I accellerated (spelling?) I went into a spin. I originally thought the white stuff was hydraulic oil (mixed with the rain water) from a leaky dumptruck due to the slick road condition.

Now I think the white stuff was a type of pollen that the rain washed into the street.

Anyone have a better idea?

CZ

[Wolfeboro Matt]

Same thing on the North Shore of Mass during Monday's rain. Weird!

[The Worm]

It might be the spray used to kill mosquitos to control West Nile and EEE, I believe the chemical insecticide Malathion is usually mixed with a soap-like agent as it is sprayed.

[The Worm]

More info on Malathion and it's use in mosquito control from the US-EPA.

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/mosquitoes/malathion4mosquitoes.htm

[shooter]

I noticed the same thing in wakefield ma the other day and thought it was from new pavement . but after reading your posts it obviously is coming from the atmosphere, mabey some type of acid rain.?????????????WIERD

[rander7823]

It's Hillary Clinton's hairspray that has been absorbed into the atmosphere and deposited through rainfall.