August 24, 2022 |
Traffic on county roads has increased this summer, County Road and Bridge Superintendent Kandis Fritz said yesterday.
Fritz updated Carbon County Commissioners yesterday during their regular meeting, which was held in Baggs. Fritz said all of the mag chloride operations designed to minimize dust and loss of road surface on the schedule for this summer was completed recently. As part of the effort, traffic counts were made on other roads to see if the treatment might be needed on additional roads next summer.
Pictured above: File photo of a dirt road in Wyoming. Photo by Cali O’Hare/Bigfoot 99.
In July, Fritz reported that more than 150 miles of county roads were scheduled to be treated with magnesium chloride this summer, the most ever in county history. Mag chloride binds the dirt on roads together, both suppressing dust and holding the graded road surface in place.
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