The regional district says that recycling paving materials makes good neighbours, and the Town of Oliver is jumping on that bandwagon.
The Public Works department plans to utilize some asphalt millings recently removed from Highway 97 as part of the four-lane construction project north of Gallagher Lake.
Public Works manager Shawn Goodsell said they are in the process of cleaning up part of their yard to store millings for next year. They are also storing some up at the sewer treatment area (Topping Lake).
“We continuously fix the gravel road at Topping, and now we want to start adding a few inches of asphalt millings on some or parts of the road to minimize the maintenance.”
Other asphalt millings stored at the Public Works yard will be used on some alley roads that are currently graveled.
Goodsell said they will budget some projects to do in 2014, including grading and compaction.
He noted they already have a stockpile of millings stored at their Road 16 gravel pit, which will be used for alleyways and Town properties.
“The quantity of millings we are trying to receive from the highway project is approximately 500 cubic metres, if we can get it, making it a total of 900 cubic metres.”
The regional district has utilized some asphalt millings to surface the 1,500-metre gravel driveway leading to the new Okanagan Falls wastewater treatment plant.
Regional district engineer Lisa Bloomfield said traffic to the plant created dust and other problems for neighbours, so they’ve corrected that by using the recycled asphalt.
Lyonel Doherty
Oliver Chronicle
