Asphalt Recycling Project to Begin in GA County

Hart County, Georgia approved a plan to use a “Cold In-Place Asphalt Recycling” process to replace a three mile road in the county. The county’s Board of Commissioners voted to allow the recycling process, which should greatly reduce the amount of material being landfilled, cut the overall cost to replace the road, and speed up the time it will take to replace the road.

John Caime, Hart County’s Public Works director, says that with the Cold In-Place Asphalt Recycling, the road replacement project could take as little as two weeks, while reducing the cost to replace the road by as much as 40 percent.

Caime says that this process has cut the cost of the road replacement from around $550,000 to around $300,000.

With Cold In-Place Asphalt Recycling, a road crew will strip the old road of the old asphalt and rock, and then process the material on site with some additional tar. The processed material would then be used as a road base. Caime says this process will make a much stronger road. “The quality should be better,” he notes.

The project is expected to begin within the next week. E.J. Breneman is the contractor for the project. The road to be replaced is roughly three miles. Caime estimates that the total amount of asphalt and gravel that will be diverted from the landfill will be around 3,000 tons.