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Show Funding obtained for paving Diamond Mountain raod Funding for realignment and paving a 10 mile section of Uintah County road from the bottom of Diamond Mountain to the Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery Hat-chery road has finally been approved, according to Uintah County Commissioners Commis-sioners this week. The Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, now Water and Power Resources Service, will fund the estimated $1,390,000 project to provide an all season access to the U.S. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Service operated Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery. The road project will be done by Uintah Uin-tah County. According to the county commissioners three dozers started Monday on clearing for the new alignment align-ment up the face of Diamond Mountain. Three miles of new road will be built starting at the Northwest Pipeline station sta-tion turnoff at the end of the present pavement in a steady grade south of the present switchbacks. The new grade will be in an area where the wind will blow snow ott the roadway instead of drifting onto it and only one switchback will be required to get to the top of the ridge of Diamond Mountain. The new gravel filled paved road will then continue on the general course of the old roau lor seven miles unul il connects con-nects with the paved road into Jones Hole hatchery. The work will be bidded out to contractors con-tractors and also done by existing county coun-ty road equipment, explained the commissioners. com-missioners. The new connecting link will give an all weather road into Jones Hole hatchery. hat-chery. It has been agreed that the county coun-ty will keep the road open in the winter to the rim of Diamond Mountain and the U.S. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife will plow the road from the rim to the Jones Hole hatchery. Jones Hole fish hatchery manager Warren White stated that paving of the 10 mile section of dirt road on Diamond Mountain connecting the 14 miles of paved road into the hatchery was good news for him. Ever since the hatchery was put into production in 1970 it has only on-ly been able to operate at about one-half capacity because of the poor road conditions con-ditions during the winter months. |