ArenaKleen will work very well with all types of riding arena footing such as sand, stone
dust, fine processed screened gravel, and all of the various blends that include the previous as well as many of the fiber products such as rubber, leather, wood, and blends.

The following is a bit of “dust education” to help make an informed decision:
When all things are considered, proper dust control in riding arenas is not expensive – it is cost effective. Most importantly one needs to understand that the DUST is only the SYMPTOM of the PROBLEM.

People say that you cannot buy health at any price but silicosis is not a joke and ArenaKleen will absolutely eliminate the dust, which has a very high potential for silicosis in the volumes created in an indoor hall, or outdoor riding ring with several horses moving around.

Using (chlorides) salt on the footing actually deteriorates the footing faster. Water also has negative effects on footing. First one needs to realize what is creating the dust to better understand what is happening and why ArenaKleen actually saves money in the long run.

Properly formulated new footing is not just dirt or sand; it is actually coarse sand,
(traction), stone dust (for strength, stability, firmness), and some type of fiber
(wood, leather, rubber, etc - to minimize compaction).

Properly formulated footing costs a lot of money. Actually even non-formulated
footing costs a fair amount of money. As the horses move over the surface, they pound the individual particles that make up the footing. They pound them together and churn them up. This causes the individual particles to wear, fracture, and chafe.

This wearing of the particles produces additional "fines". The fines act as sand paper and wear the footing even faster. It is an ever increasing vicious cycle.

While salt initially attracts moisture giving temporary dust control and a false sense
of accomplishment, the salt over time is actually drying the soil particles and causes
the cycle of particle breakup/wear even faster plus the dried particles of salt are
themselves unhealthy to breath in.

If water is used for dust control the water floats the soil particles, oftentimes this
creates soft spots and in some cases even mud or slippery spots and it does not last
very long before drying out requiring reapplication. Thus the footing when watered
does not maintain any consistency but is constantly changing.

ArenaKleen's special formulation allows it to:

• Absorb into the particles rather than just coating the outside like the water.

• Lubricate the particles so that they chafe less and thus wear more slowly helping to
  preserve footing longer all the while eliminating the symptom, the dust.

• Stay with the particle for many, many months.