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‘Hot-In-Place Asphalt Recycling’: Eco-Friendly Re-Paving of Carter, Silvermine [VIDEO]
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Uploaded by Michael Dinan on 2016-07-11. Using a new, energy- and cost-saving technology, workers hired by the town last week re-paved all of Silvermine Road and Carter Street. The method (see video above)—called ‘hot-in-place asphalt recycling’—sees heavy equipment traverse an existing road, heating it up, milling it, scraping it up and pulling the material into a “pug mill,” then adding a rejuvenating agent and paving the very same asphalt out the backside of the large vehicle, according to Tiger Mann, assistant director of the New Canaan Department of Public Works. “It takes out cracks and anomalies but you don’t have to mill and take it away and bring it back, so it is very much environmentally friendly in that regard and there’s a very large cost-savings,” Mann said. Performed by Brewster, N.Y.-based Highway Rehab Corp., the work cost about $400,000 for the two roads—paid out of the approximately $2.5 million that New Canaan allocates each year to road maintenance.