Crews recycle to repave Schenley Avenue in Boardman

By PETER H. MILLIKEN

milliken@vindy.com

BOARDMAN

Road crews are using a money-saving and environmentally green technology to repave Schenley Avenue from the Youngstown city limits to Hopkins Road.

Ronyak Paving Inc., of Burton, began the two-day job Saturday and expects to finish Monday, weather permitting.

“I think this is the future of our industry,” said Scott Ronyak, paving superintendent for Ronyak Paving Inc.

The $24,900 repaving job, awarded to Ronyak by the Mahoning County commissioners, is being accomplished using a $2.5 million machine that performs on-site, reheat asphalt recycling.

The process entails in-place heating, grinding and remixing of two inches of asphalt that’s already on the road, and adding liquid asphalt emulsion to it, before re-applying the asphalt to the road and rolling it down.

In this demonstration project, funded by gasoline tax revenues, this recycling method is being used for the first time for the county engineer’s office.

The two-lane section of Schenley Avenue, where the pavement is being recycled in place, is 2,404 feet long and between 22 and 231‚Ñ2 feet wide.

The recycling method is 30 percent to 40 percent less expensive than traditional asphalt paving, Ronyak said.

Those cost savings are derived in large part from not having to buy and haul new asphalt from an asphalt plant to the paving site and not having to haul old asphalt away from the road, Ronyak said.

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