I assure you they still do that, source: my dad still lived on a back country road that they regularly tarred until they finally paved it about two or three years ago. When I lived there I hated when they did it because I had a white car and didn’t want all the oil on it since it was so hard to wash off and I had to go to the car wash every time I left the house

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was reading about one where the oil was contaminated with some truly terrible shit, dioxin maybe? Several people died. They turned that whole area into a Superfund site.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A Brief History of: The Times Beach Dioxin Disaster (Documentary)

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[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like chipcoat. The "tar" is bitumen, not waste oil -- basically asphalt minus the crushed rock aggregate.

It's messy as hell but no more toxic than regular asphalt.