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Typical heavy traffic loads on Watson Road in south San Antonio, TX. Background Watson Road, located in south San Antonio, Texas, (Bexar County) began to show cracking and ruts nearly six inches deep due to heavy traffic loads, poor drainag...
Success Stories
Browse our success stories to learn how our solutions have helped improve durability and overall performance while increasing safety on roads throughout the U.S.
Public Works officials in Tom Green County, Texas, discovered a cost-effective approach to strengthening their road base using an 80% water to 20% CSS-1H emulsion mixture, which can extend the service life of a road for up to 10 to 15 years....
Adjusting the Plan The group decided to make the project 9” (instead of the originally scheduled 10”) in order to stay out of the clay. The reasoning was there would be no diminishing or detrimental effects by reducing the FDR material by 1” a...
Treatment Plan This would be the first time FDR would be used to treat a fly ash road. Ergon’s engineered emulsion — FDR-EE — was the selected binder for this process. This emulsion would help facilitate a stable base able to resist moisture d...
When faced with the task of deciding which rehabilitation method was best for the City of Lamesa and Dawson County, Garver, the lead engineering/design firm for this project, identified full depth reclamation (FDR) as a cost-efficient method that...