What can asphalt be used for?
The first thing that comes to mind when you hear asphalt is roads. But the versatility of asphalt makes it the ideal material for other applications and locations: from driveways to runways, from the barn floor to the ocean floor. HMA is also used worldwide as a practical solution to water storage, flood control, erosion, and conservation problems. Asphalt has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency and used successfully as a primary liner for both sanitary and hazardous waste landfills. You’ll find asphalt all around you in a variety of uses, including: • Transportation – highways, railbeds for transit systems, airport runways • Recreational – running tracks, greenway trails, playgrounds, bicycle and golf paths, racetracks, basketball and tennis courts • Aquatic – fish hatcheris, reservoir liners, industrial retention pond, sea walls, dikes and groins to control beach erosion • Residential – driveways, subdivision roads • Agricultural – cattle feed lots, poultry house flo
