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Recycling Roads Saves Time, Money, and Resources
 Failing
streets, roads, and highways are a constant problem for cities,
counties and highway agencies. Many aging road systems need rehabilitation
or reconstruction. The problem: years of building low-cost roadways
with unbound bases and thin asphalt surfacing doom pavements to
early distress and failure.
The
most efficient and economical way to rehabilitate these failed
flexible
pavements is to recycle the existing roadway with cement.
Small amounts of cement will bind these granular materials together
to form a semi-rigid base that will serve to carry traffic for
a long time. The process uses base materials and the aggregates
in
the asphalt surface. It allows the user to continue to use the
existing roadway while fixing more miles than conventional replacement
allows. It also conserves materials that are used for new
pavements. We hope this web site will give you the tools, information
and resources necessary to initiate your own recycling program
or build upon your existing one. Please know that CCT is here
as a
technical advisor, as a research resource and as people who care
about building strong roads.
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Fort Worth's FDR saves millions
Since
1996, Fort Worth’s street maintenance program has saved taxpayers
millions of dollars by recycling the city’s deteriorating
and failed asphalt streets with cement. The city has rebuilt 296
lane-miles or 2.26 million sq. yd. of roadway using full-depth recycling
(FDR) with cement, according to Najib Fares, the city’s street
program manager. [Full Story]
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Ken Smith, TxDOT inspector
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Don't Take Our Word For It...
“There really are no negatives. With cement, you get tremendous
strength.” - Ken Smith, inspector, TxDOT Jacksonville, Texas
Contractor, Oct 2003
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