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Updated: July 22nd, 2008 04:54 PM EDT

Soil stabilization meets nuclear power plant needs

Pavement Preservation

sloped side walls
After a grading contractor spread and compacted the treated material on the sloped side walls, the entire pond was covered with a two-layer liner to seal it from any leakage.
pond construction
For the pond construction, Asphalt Busters used a level mixing area adjacent to the pond structure to spread over 200 truckloads (4,550 tons) of the cement additive (which was applied at a rate of 8 percent of the total combined volume to be mixed) and then injected over 1.4 million gallons of water at 200 to 425 gallons per minute to the treated soil before mixing to a depth of 12 inches in order to produce 55,000 cubic yards of material for the sloped side wall construction.
Asphalt Busters
"The entire site is under a microscope as far as total emissions being released into the environment," says Dan Selby with Asphalt Busters. "That required some modifications to the skirting around the mixing chamber of our reclaimer/stabilizer, and the emissions output of our equipment was also monitored."
water injected into hot-mix asphalt
Water was immediately injected into the mix on a pass following the cement placement, then the water was unhooked to make a final 12-inch-deep mixing pass over the material. This was done to minimize the possibility of dust emitting from the site.

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"A lot of the soil stabilization work we get involved with is either site prep for building projects or parking lot and roadway stabilization," he says. "We used to be in the grading and paving business, but the stabilization business is really a specialty that was needed in this market and one that requires a full commitment in order to deliver the quality customers want."

In 2007, Asphalt Busters provided its soil stabilization expertise to 125 different contractors. Most of the projects were in Arizona and New Mexico, but the contractor does partner with another stabilization contractor in California to provide the equipment and service capabilities required to execute certain types of projects.

"We can provide equipment and technical assistance (operators) that can support a grading contractor who requires our expertise in order to successfully bid and construct a job," Selby says. "We have lime slurry equipment to stabilize soil conditions, and that's something most grading and site prep contractors just don't have in their equipment fleet. So, we're in a position to fill a very specialized niche."

As a specialist in asphalt pulverization and soil stabilization, Asphalt Busters is in a position to provide grading and paving contractors with a service that saves those contractors time and money.

From building pads to parking lots to traffic-bearing surfaces and everything in between, Asphalt Busters is in a unique position to provide contractors with a solid foundation.

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