In 1977, an 800-foot section of a state secondary road in southwestern Pennsylvania became a test site for a road-base material containing dewatered flue gas desulfurization (FGD) scrubber material.
The demonstration used a pozzolanic road base made from lime, fly ash, bottom ash and dewatered FGD scrubber material. The entire base was placed in a single lift in one day and had a compacted thickness of 10 inches.