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South Central Colorado Driveway Services

Green Technology

Recycle Your Existing Driveway Substrate

Go Green with the
Gravel Doctor®

With the ongoing awareness of the need to “go green”, more businesses are doing their part to reduce, reuse and recycle. THE GRAVEL DOCTOR® subscribes to the same principles of “green” technology by reducing the environmental impact of surface restoration. The rationale is explained below.

An Alternative to New Gravel

Recycling Reduces Environmental Impact

Consider this scenario: a 450 horsepower dump truck takes 1.5 hours to complete a roundtrip delivery of a load of gravel to a homeowner’s driveway. In total the truck uses approximately 675 horsepower to accomplish the service.  To complete a one-hour surface restoration to repair the driveway, THE GRAVEL DOCTOR® will use approximately 32 to 35 horsepower. Based on this scenario THE GRAVEL DOCTOR® used just 5% of the power required just to deliver the stone.

Now consider the energy requirements it takes to acquire that new stone from its original location, most likely from a remote rural location:

 

A New Load Of Rock Delivered To Your Driveway Would Ultimately Require 7700 Horsepower:

Pioneers of Green Technology

THE GRAVEL DOCTOR® Requires just 0.0045% Of That Total To Complete Your Surface Restoration By Recycling Existing Gravel!

Now That’s GREEN TECHNOLOGY!

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