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In 2008, Eric M. Reimschiissel, manager of the Pavement Maintenance Division of the American Asphalt & Grading Co., completed the largest slurry seal project for the City of Las Vegas, and as far as Reimschiissel knows, maybe the largest slurry seal project ever bid in the country.

During the spring and fall road maintenance schedule established by the Las Vegas Public Works Department, one of Reimschiissel's crews placed 3,867,044 square yards of slurry seal to complete the $3.5 million project.

The 13- to 14-member crew operated three self-contained truck-mounted Valley Slurry Seal Macropavers that traveled from staging areas to the projects, where they were then attached to a spreader box to apply the specified Type 1 or Type 2 slurry.

"It really worked out well having the three units shuttle back and forth to the staging areas where we could load them with materials," Reimschiissel says. "We had eight stockpile staging areas for this project and when one of the pavers mixed and emptied its load in the slurry box, another was ready to be hooked up and continue spreading the slurry."

As a past president and Slurry Seal Workshop Committee chairman of the International Slurry Surfacing Association, Reimschiissel has been active in the slurry seal industry for 30 years, providing industry guidance on applications and specifications in several states. He has also been promoting the use of slurry seals and pavement preservation for three decades.