Here’s another sign of Spring: an article about gravel road dust control. From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . .
The placement of a dust-control product on 42 miles of gravel roads in Flathead County is scheduled to begin around June 1.
County commissioners last week awarded a contract for the work to Montana Dust Control of Whitefish…
The county has budgeted $100,000 for the work; participating property owners along the involved roads share in the cost for another $100,000.
This year, for the first time, more county residents applied for the program than the county had budgeted funds for the work, county Public Works Director Dave Prunty said.