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Updated: July 22nd, 2008 04:54 PM GMT-05:00
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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.
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.
"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 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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"If the existing soil conditions are less than desirable, you can't build a quality project unless you make sure you're building on a quality foundation," Selby says. "We may not be the lowest price, but we believe we're the best at what we do. And any contractor who's going to stake their reputation on building a quality project is going to make sure they're building on a quality foundation."
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