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Show Valley roads Officials hopeful repairs will progress Commissioner Merrill Mecham : h00Y. his head and sighed when asked if ' uintah County could have ever foreseen :' road problems caused when a , vaiieyside sewer system was installed. "When you've got people calling you l every day," was his reply to the ques- ) tion of how big of a problem it is. ) Local officials agree the roads are ii slowly being repaired. The process will 4 be helped by two things, the arrival of summer weather and the availability of . asphalt.. j ..e should have had a little bit better control with contractors. We passed an ) ordinance, so we should have better control," said Mecham. Contractors excavating roads have to ' put up a bond of $10 a foot. ' South Vernal Avenue and South 500 ' West are referred to most often as I roads that are in terrible condition i because of excavation. The Glines area just south of Maeser also has a lot of torn up streets. "Uintah County is very concerned. They have final approval," said Ashley Valley Water and Sewer Improvement District board member Larry Hacking. "I've been out on these roads. I think they've gone along fairly good." Board chairman Brownie Tomlinson has said in board meetings that some repair work has not been good enough, and has talked about having the work done over at the expense of the original contractor. Another group heavily involved in road repair, the Ashley Valley Sewer Management Board, has gone as far as informing the contractor that if a particular par-ticular street wasn't repaired, then the firm would be billed for another contractor con-tractor to do the job. The move seems to have worked, said board member Rolene Smith. Hacking said accountability can help solve the problem. He referred to the board's decision last week to stay with a policy of fixing roads the water and sewer improvement district has torn up. There are questions on some roads about who is responsible, however. Naples Mayor Lawrence Kay presented the district board with a copy of a letter to the county commission, which asks essentially, who is responsible? respon-sible? According to Tomlinson, work on about 30 spots has to be negotiated, and that he has been told by Vernal that those areas are the district's responsibility respon-sibility by way of an agreement when the two water systems were separated. 1 i ' ' ' ! . ,,-: : :':':;- ; f ."V. t . ' '- ' .. ' ', ' ' --? ' ,- c.,-, - . j , L - ' - - ! .. ; 7 ... -' -:".- F'-v- ;-f-ri.-- . - " . '.--, - - - - . - " . i. " . - - r " - i " T - - 4"" ' -.. .- - -, f TRAFFIC SQUEEZES onto one lane of pavement on south Vernal Avenue until excavation work at right is re-paved. Vernal Avenue and 500 West are often referred to as trouble spots for roads under repair. Officials say roads will be repaired if contractors honor repair obligations. |