Inviting, Attractive The appearance of your driveway creates an impression about your home and way of life. An inviting driveway provides a focal point as passersby and visitors approach your home. And certainly an attractive driveway, one with "curb appeal," adds value to your home investment. So it is worthwhile to plan your driveway carefully. With Hot Mix Asphalt as your materialand some attention to design and constructionyour driveway will provide years of lasting service and an excellent return on the investment.

Just What is Asphalt Pavement? It's an engineered mixture of aggregate, or stones and sand, with liquid asphalt cement (a petroleum product). Varying sizes of aggregates are heated, then mixed, in exact proportions, with asphalt cement that has been liquefied at about 300F. While the mixture is still hot, it is delivered to your driveway and paved on top of a base or subgrade that has already been prepared. Very soon after paving, the mixture cools and hardens and you can drive on it right away.

What You Receive with Hot Mix Asphalt? You'll recognize several benefits with asphalt pavements, compared to other, more costly options.

Asphalt lends itself readily to the types of service that are usual in residential areas. If a utility line must pass under your driveway, repairs are performed more easily and quickly than with alternative materials, such as concrete. The same is true if undue ground settlement should occur naturally.

Asphalt driveways can also be designed using porous asphalt, a special asphalt mix that allows water to drain through the pavement into a subgrade reservoir. Porous asphalt can often be used to meet local impermeable surfaces codes and offer a good-looking surface that is easy to maintain.

And asphalt is the most cost-effective option you can choose. Just as it has for millions of homeowners the world over, Hot Mix Asphalt can last many years for you with only minimal maintenance.

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Nov. 7, 2014, 5:31 p.m.

A Woonona man claims contractors preparing his street for the National Broadband Network drilled through an underground stormwater pipe and spray painted his driveway.

Shawn Moore points to the spot where he claims that NBN contractors drilled through a stormwater pipe. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR

A Woonona man claims contractors preparing his street for the National Broadband Network drilled through an underground stormwater pipe and spray painted his driveway.

Shawn Moore lives in Harriet Spearing Drive in Woonona and he said contractors for NBN Co were in the street preparing the pits for the broadband cable about two months ago.

They damaged the stormwater [pipe] and then denied that it was damaged, Mr Moore said.

So I ended up having to dig the footpath up a week ago, to expose the pipe and the damage.

I paid for the materials myself and got some assistance from the contractors.

Once Mr Moore had uncovered the pipe, he found a metre-long section of the stormwater pipe had been cut out. That was replaced with a piece of bigger pipe and sleeved over the top and held in place with a bit of duct tape.

Also, the NBN conduit ran straight through the pipe.

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Welcome to the home page of the Asphalt Pavement Association of Indiana (APAI).

We are a fifty year old not-for-profit trade organization representing the interests of the asphalt paving industry in the Hoosier Heartland of America. APAIis dedicated to promoting the use of asphalt by developing and delivering customer-driven programs to enhance quality and excellence in all aspects of asphalt technology. Our members and staff firmly believe that the key to growth and prosperity in the industry is continuous quality improvement obtained through active association membership, positive customer relationships, and continual education and training.

Asphaltindiana.org is your one stop shop for advocacy, professional development, research, networking and advancing technology. Membership helps to ensure that the concerns and viewpoints of the industry are represented by a strong unified voice. Together, we support the strategic marketing of the many benefits of asphalt. Responsive, professional and focused on quality, APAIis truly The Public's Partner in Building Indiana's Infrastructure.

The Eight Key User/Owner Benefits of Asphalt Construction

Cost Effective - not only does asphalt pavement have the lowest initial cost when compared to other alternative pavement products, but its' life cycle cost (when measured over the entire life of the pavement) are also lower than other competitive pavement products.

Constructibility/Speed of Construction - asphalt pavements constructed during the day are normally ready to have traffic that same day. This allows better access to adjacent businesses and improved traffic flow through and around the projects reducing user delay while continuing to construct the project.

Smooth - asphalt pavements are the smoothest pavements placed in the country today.

Versatile - asphalt pavements can be tailored to the specific application during the design phase of the project allowing for the unique characteristics of each project. Design life from 5 years to in excess of 30 years can be accommodated easily. For cost sensitive projects staged construction can be a viable design alternative with asphalt concrete pavements as a way to accommodate increased traffic flow while remaining sensitive to the structural integrity of the pavement.

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The Wright County Supervisors decided Monday to again delay the paving of 700 feet of 150th Street leading to the MaxYield fertilizer plant on the south edge of Belmond.

Belmond City Manager Lee Ann Waltzing appeared at the weekly board meeting to check on the status of the blacktop project. In May of 2012, before the fertilizer plant was built, the city and county discussed sharing the cost of improving the gravel road on a 50-50 basis, with the county doing the engineering work. The county engineer said at that time he would draw the plans in 2013 so the paving could be done in 2014.

The city and the county both signed an official 28E agreement to share the work 50-50, but at the insistence of the supervisors, the document did not include a timeline.

So over the past 30 months, nothing has happened. The Belmond City Council set aside $150,000 for its share of the work in the 2013-14 city budget. The plant opened in July 2013. And in January 2014, city officials asked why the county was dragging its feet.

But the city and the county made a commitment to MaxYield, said Waltzing. When are we going to follow through on it?

Board members acknowledged that in the past couple of years the county paid for paving roads to the ADS plant in Eagle Grove, Sparboe near Eagle Grove, and Clarion Packaging. But they claim that those three projects created more jobs than MaxYield.

County Engineer Adam Clemons said Monday, I am looking for some direction on where to go with this.

Boardmembers asked Clemons about engineering the project now but not doing the paving until a later date.

Clemons said the problem with that is, there could be changes in the law, codes, or specifications of the project between now and then, so it might have to be re-engineered. That would cost the county additional time and money. He also mentioned that money is tight, and showed photographs of several culverts in the county that need replacement.

The supervisors decided to contact MaxYield and find out if the co-op has any expansion planned. From there they will decide whether or not to move forward with the project.

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Ksenia Martin was 'devastated' to discover she will not be able to use drive Claims she did not know the roundabout would block her drivepermanently Has tried to sell the house but says the building site outside puts buyers off Highways Agency says plans were in place when she bought house in 2011

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Published: 12:19 EST, 4 November 2014 | Updated: 17:30 EST, 4 November 2014

A mother-of-one says she is 'devastated' as a new roundabout has permanently blocked access to her new 20,000 driveway.

Ksenia Martin says she knew about the 150 million project to widen the A453 outside her home in Clifton, Nottinghamshire, but says she did not realise that the planned roundabout would block her drive permanently.

Retired Mrs Martin, who spent 20,000 landscaping and re-paving her garden and driveway, says she has been left devastated by the news.

Ksenia Martin (pictured) says she did not know the 150million project would permanently block off her drive

The 150 million roundabout blocks Mrs Martin's brand new driveway - she now has to park around the corner

A virtual visualisation of the A453 widening

Mrs Martin has repeatedly tried to sell the house but says she has found no buyers because of the development of the roundabout just yards from her front door.

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