General Applications of Soil Stabilizers

• Mixing and blending of soil and/ or surface materials with additives, called mixed-in-place process, mostly based on a cementitious stabilization
• Breaking up and milling asphalt surfaces for recycling process
• Preparing ground for general construction purposes
• Level surface area, reverse erosion damage and control erosion

specific soil stabilization projects:

Mixed-in-place Surface Stabilization of Dirt Roads

• Use of lime, cement, cement-kiln- dust, synthetic stabilizing additives or calcium chloride
• Increases load carrying capacity, strength and shear stability
• Reduces swelling, plasticity and water contents
• Increases wear resistant of surface
• Substantially reduces costs because of less maintenance and longer life
• Reduces potholes, rutting, boiling, raveling, wash boarding and soft spots
• Reduction of water erosion damage on sloped roads
• Multi year dust control
• Low to no impact on watersheds and fisheries habitats
• Typical applications are: gravelroads, gravel strips along highways, forest roads, biking and hiking trails, parking lots, storage areas, temporary construction roads and laneways
• A proven process used for over 2000 years, some of the roads built by the Romans are still in use today

Mixed-in-place Subgrade Stabilization

• Use of lime, cement, cement-kiln- dust, fly ash or blends of those materials to stabilize subgrades in mixed-in place process
• No replacement of subgrade material with course aggregated materials necessary - use existing material as subgrade for construction process
• Reduce water contents, plasticity and swelling of subgrade to extend life of hard surfaced areas
• Reduce cracking and potholes
• Increase load bearing capacity
• Tremendous cost savings in paved surface construction process
• Typical applications are: highways, municipal and county roads, railway tracks, parking lots, subgrade for building sites, subdivision roads, airports and landing strips

Reblending of Dirt Road Materials

• Milling of dirt roads to reblend existing materials without adding stabilizing additives
• Mobile in place process

Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement

• Cold milling of asphalt surface
• Blending the asphalt layer with existing subgrade
• Addition of stabilizing additives is possible
• Recycling of existing material to create a foundation for hard surface roads or unbound surface roads

Soil Drying

• Use of lime to reduce water contents in soils
• Surface applied lime is blended with existing soil, which reduces the water contents
• Decreases drying time under wet conditions to convert soil into a usable condition to be used as fill or to drive on
• Time saving process in time sensitive applications