Jul
29
2010
Here’s the Flathead Beacon’s take on last Tuesday’s public open house to discuss the North Fork Road corridor study draft . . .
To pave or not to pave? The question of what to do with the North Fork Road was further debated Tuesday night in Columbia Falls. Residents, local business owners and Flathead County officials [...]
Tags: corridor study, dust abatement, North Fork Road, paving
Jul
29
2010
Here’s the Daily Inter Lake’s write-up on last Tuesday’s public open house to discuss the North Fork Road corridor study draft. If for no other reason, it’s worth reading for Flathead County Commissioner Jim Dupont’s pragmatic comments . . .
To pave or not to pave may not be the question.
Due to lack of money, Flathead [...]
Tags: corridor study, dust abatement, Jim Dupont, North Fork Road, paving
Jul
29
2010
This week’s Hungry Horse News has a good summary of last Tuesday’s public open house to discuss the North Fork Road corridor study draft.
Note that public comments are due by August 10. Send e-mail to mdtnffrteam@mt.gov or write to Lani Eggertsen-Goff, PB 488 E. Wincester Street, Suite 400, Murray, UT 84107. The draft corridor study [...]
Tags: corridor study, dust abatement, North Fork Road, paving
Jul
24
2010
Here’s some more information on the upcoming public meeting on the North Fork Road corridor study from yesterday’s Daily Inter Lake . . .
An open-house-style meeting has been scheduled for the public to review and give comments on the corridor study of a portion of the North Fork Road.
The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. [...]
Tags: corridor study, dust abatement, North Fork Road, paving
Jul
21
2010
According to an email sent out yesterday afternoon by Pam Murray of PB Americas, the draft North Fork Road corridor study document is now available online and, for those of you traveling down-valley, on paper. (If you came late to the party, the corridor study is a $125K project looking at alternatives for improving the [...]
Tags: corridor study, dust abatement, North Fork Road, paving
Nov
18
2009
As many of you know, the North Fork Landowners’ Association Road Committee has been doing an exceptional and balanced job collecting and presenting well-researched road maintenance and dust abatement information. They recently completed and posted their Final Road Report for 2008 – 2009, summarizing all their activities for the past two years. For more detail, [...]
Tags: dust abatement, NFLA, North Fork Landowners’ Association, North Fork Road, road maintenance
Aug
23
2009
From a recent email sent out by the NFLA Road Committee . . .
The NFLA road committee has arranged to have Laura Fay, a research scientist from Western Transportation Institute out of MSU, come to talk about Dust Control Options. She will speak on September 8th at 10:00 a.m. at Sondreson Hall.
Her talk will include [...]
Tags: dust abatement, North Fork Road
Apr
08
2009
Flathead County got enough takers for their dust abatement program to use up about half the $100,000 budget allocation — none on the North Fork, though.
Today’s Daily Inter Lake has the story . . .
More than 24 miles of Flathead County roads will get dust abatement this summer through a new cost-sharing program.
It’s a pay-to-play [...]
Tags: black oil, Dave Prunty, dust abatement, dust palliative, emulsified asphalt, magnesium chloride
Mar
04
2009
As promised, Flathead County has set some money aside for a sort-of dust abatement co-pay plan. Trouble is, there aren’t many takers so far. The deadline is March 27th.
From the March 4, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
Residents who want to tap into Flathead County’s cost-sharing dust abatement program this [...]
Tags: black oil, Dave Prunty, dust abatement, dust palliative, emulsified asphalt, gravel roads, magnesium chloride, road maintenance, rural roads
Jan
27
2009
From the Tuesday, January 27, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
County officials briefed the county commissioners Monday on last year’s efforts and this year’s plans to deal with vehicles churning up dust on the Flathead’s gravel roads.
“We’ve demonstrated to the [Montana Department of Environmental Quality] and to the state that [...]
Tags: dust abatement, gravel roads, North Fork Road, road maintenance