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Show jpeovmg work staffs " ' HCAO.-; . - ..- .1 ' PAVED ROAD connecting Jones Hole fish hatchery has been paved to Diamond Gulch. Another five miles will connect the pavement to the federal hatchery pavement. The 10-mile Uintah County road realignment and paving project from the bottom of Diamond Mountain to the Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery road should be finished by the end of this month, reported Neal Domgaard, Uintah County Commissioner, Monday. The road project will entirely eliminate the switchbacks winding up the rim of Diamond Mountain. The new alignment is a steady grade to the south of the present road starting at the Northwest Pipeline compressor station turn-off. At the top of the rim the road will follow the general course of the old road for seven miles until it joins the existing paved road into Jones Hole hatchery. A three-foot subbase of rock and gravel is raising the road high enough that moisture and heavy snow storms will blow off the surface. Hajco Construction Company, Sandy, has been doing the subbase work. Only about two miles at the Jones Hole end is left. Harris Bethers Construction, Heber City, has the gravel contract. Uintah County road department has been using its own equipment and hiring local equipment to apply the gravel and asphalt. The paved surface is native asphalt from the county asphalt pit and is being applied by Uintah County. The asphalt is mixed with gravel after receiving a diluent to make it mix better. The mixing is done on the road by graders and then it is rolled, explained Domgaard. The asphalt has been applied for the first five miles. A week of rainy weather has hampered the paving work because the asphalt must be dry and warm before it will be spread, Domgaard said. The road will be finished in plenty of time for the hunting seasons and will provide a paved road from Vernal to the Jones Hole Hatchery for the first time. The Department of Interior's Water and Power Resources Service is funding fun-ding the road project for $1,390,000. The project will provide an all-season access ac-cess to Jones Hole fish hatchery. The U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to keep the road open during the winter by snow plowing to the rim of Diamond Mountain. The county has agreed to plow the road from Vernal to the top of the rim on Diamond Mountain. The new road will give sheepmen, stockmen, sportsmen and the general public a year-round paved access to Diamond Mountain, which has always been closed off in the winter, because of deep snow drifts. t '''-5-nt--..... r r ,-vr - ' i '4 - v ste - iris : . " . . . . . ' r . " . i, js- . t ,,,.-. - XJ " ' ' ,. a"..., . , -t. ' ' ' ' , II ' , - - ' -''. 1: -f . "... ' THE NEW ROAD over the rim of Diamond Mountain on the south side from the old road will cut out switchbacks and make year-round travel possible. Wind-blown snowdrifts on the north side road made it impossible to plowing plow-ing winter months. This photo shows begr' of new road with asphalt forming a win-ready win-ready for gravel and diluent. V - . - - . - ;v - - -.-'X: . ..'----'. . -J - ? p. ."' . " " - , ... v ' ' .t - - i. 1 -.-,- -- "" , w i .--.- .. . Jy - -x1- .t - . r "v. i-v--- --,'': ' - w ' GRAVEL CRUSHER located on the rim of Diamond Dia-mond Mountain has supplied the gravel base for the new Diamond Mountain road. All of the available bottom dump trucks in the area": been contracted by Uintah County to k: gravel and asphalt. |