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~ ~ >J ~ i <br /> May 15, 2002 <br /> CONTACT: Bud DeSantis, Engineering Project Manager, 682-5230 <br /> Mike Alltucker, Eugene Sand & Gravel, 683-6400 <br /> From Public I formation Section, 682-5523 <br /> 7 <br /> FOR IMMED TE RELEASE <br /> CO CRETE FROM MALL TO BE RECYCLED ON BROADWAY PROJECT <br /> j When Broadway opens to traffic this fall, the street's foundation will include some of the <br /> old pedestria mall. <br /> Euge a Sand & Gravel, the general contractor on the road construction project, made a <br /> special effort to break the old concrete mall into pieces well-sized for the company's crusher <br /> machine. T e company hauled the material from the mall to its yard on Delta Highway North, <br /> I where the of concrete is being made it into subsurface fill material. The fill material will be <br /> brought bac to the job and placed over the soil base of the new street to improve drainage and <br /> add strength to the new concrete surface paving. <br /> I <br /> Whil the technique of crushing old concrete to make agravel-like material has been <br /> done before the City of Eugene Public Works Department worked closely with Eugene Sand & <br /> Gravel toe ure that the material used on Broadway will meet the project's specifications. <br /> "We' a saving this material from ending up in a landfill or a quarry pit," said Bud <br /> DeSantis, B oadway construction manager with the Public Works Engineering Division. "And <br /> we're savin the need to mine new gravel through this recycling." <br /> "Re ycling a portion of the old rubble concrete is an environmentally friendly process <br /> and a great `Eugene type' solution," said Mike Alltucker, president of Eugene Sand & Gravel. <br /> ~ ""We are w rking with the City to develop other new environmentally friendly products for future <br /> projects." <br /> NOTE TO ASSIGNMENT EDITORS: THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO <br /> PHOTOG PH THE CONCRETE CRUSHING OPERATION ON THURSDAY, MAY 16, AT <br /> 10 A.M. T EUGENE SAND 8~ GRAVEL'S MAIN OFFICE, 3000 DELTA HIGHWAY <br /> NORTH <br /> <br /> ~~r? <br /> Pu tic Works • Administration • City of Eugene • 858 Pearl Street • Eugene, OR 97401 <br /> Phone: (541) 682-5262 • FAX: (541 } 682-6826 • www.ci.eugene.or.us <br /> <br />