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Show r)ewey-Co!o. Monument oad Study Underway A feasibility stmly on a imposed road from lVwey, - jitwih. tho Dolores Triangle jrea to tho Colorado Si. lie guf mid the Colorado National ,! JUotumn'iit, is currently ho-jiij; ho-jiij; conducted by otliciats of s 3;f I'tah lVp.irtinont !' lligh-j.ns. lligh-j.ns. District Engineer James ; I!on. Price; along wifh . SiioUJvHi McOonkie, chiof loea. p,m design engineer for the . Department .along with J. V. jVestwood of the Grand Coun-; Coun-; ty Road lVpartment, have Just completed a several-day yip into the area, where they located a new route for the proposed road. I The new alignment, aeeord-; aeeord-; Jr.g to Mr. Deaton, would involve in-volve two bridges across the " Colorado Ris er, one at Dewey ind the other three miles up-' up-' .ream from Dewey, but a trossing of tlie Dolores River juxild be avoided. Mr. Deaton said that tlie new alignment, - ivhieh would follow the Colo-: Colo-: rodo River, would be a total ' of 15 miles long, and would ; save T1 miles from the pre- - sent four-wheel drive roufe from the Dolores ford. He jaid that although Uie report : ti.is not been finalized, it appeared ap-peared that the road could ' be built for around $200 tlioo- - sand per mile, with around $1 million projected for the jwo bridges. Total prelimin- ary cost estimates would run around $4 million for the en- Iire project, he said. j The study now underway ; tame as a result of legislate legisla-te efforts of Rep. Kenneth Silliman of Green River, vh9. "after making a tour of the area with Utah and Colorado pfficials, sponsored a resolu-; resolu-; iion calling for funds for tha " study. A similar piece of leg-: leg-: Islative work was done in the Colorado general assembly for their portion of the road. ; Mr. Deaton stated that the h newly selected alignment would save enough In mileage costs to pay for the added bridge over tlie Colorado. It would be less costly, and have less environmental impact Than a road following the present jeep trail, he said. No grades of over 5 per cent would be required. The report will be finalized in the near future, he said. From that point, plans will have to be made to secure special funding for the project, pro-ject, he said. |
