CalRecycle, Santa Barbara County Team fixes the damaged Fire Road until: Pilot project leaves thousands of Scrap Tires Out of landfills and stocks

For immediate Release
10 August 2010
2010-Release 13

SANTA BARBARA-Department of resources, recycling and recovery (CalRecycle) and Santa Barbara County have begun to Palomino Road, damaged during and after 2009 Jesusita fire repairs. CalRecycle provides engineering design and funding of the pilot project, which uses the 350 tonnes recycled material tyres to repair the road, environmentally friendly, cost-effective and durable.

"Our partnership with Santa Barbara County exemplifies one of the fundamental principles of: finding greater CalRecycle and better uses for waste that would otherwise end up in a California landfills," said CalRecycle Director Margo Reid Brown. " Palomino Road damage repair help Santa Barbara County residents as they continue to be a devastating wildfire recovery in the last year, and these shredded tyres indicates its value at the end of the road construction and repair projects statewide. "

California recycles more than 30 million used tyres annually on a playground carpets, artificial turf and other products.CalRecycle is to develop an alternative to the recycled tyres green building materials such as tire derived from the combined use of rubberized Palomino Road asphalt concrete project thus quiet, long-lasting on road surfaces.

Voikko Road, Santa Barbara County unincorporated, originally was constructed by cutting off and then hillside soil base construction of the road back up again.The soil contained very expansive clay materials and payment and the road due to a combination of problems arising from cracking have constantly been 25 years.

12 Houses along the Palomino Road was lost reaction to May 2009.In emergency situations, which are used in the firefight and heavy-duty truck event, there has been an increase in traffic during the current poor road conditions underlined. Road failure including landslides and excessive vertical cracking speed up usual maintenance tasks further and outside the lane was closed.

Tire derived from shredded used tyres are made of Composite (TDA).It is one-third of the States, the effect of half of the country kelatoiva pressure and offers 10 times better than traditional soil materials drainage. TDA is cheaper, and it provides a more stable for the new embankment in the road surface.

TDA fill shall be distributed between the damaged due to a combination of the road under the measure 400 m long, 9-12 m wide and 6 feet deep. Two feet on top of the soil cover, and compress the TDA road finished front end with. this project remains approximately 35,000 waste tyres in landfills or stocks.

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CalRecycle's waste Tire Management fund $ detailing the grant covers the engineering design, delivery and location of the TDA and drainage system setup. Santa Barbara County to the accountable par of all the permits and CEQA requirements, design, traffic control, paving, and extra for. of the total cost of the project is around EUR 300000.

Is the leading authority of the State CalRecycle recycling, waste reduction and reuse of products play an important California CalRecycle. maximum resource stewardship and to encourage innovation in technology, the economy and the environment with a view to promoting sustainable development. for more information, visit the following www.calrecycle.ca.gov.

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