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Emmons County confirms road superintendent as full-time amid discussions on culverts, gravel tracking and dust control
Summary
The board approved Russ Lawler as a full-time road department employee and discussed gravel inventory tracking, culvert undermining after heavy rains and community requests for county dust-control measures.
Emmons County commissioners confirmed Russ Lawler as a full-time road department employee and heard a detailed operations update that covered tractor installation, gravel hauling, culvert failures and options for dust control.
Lawler told the board crews were hauling gravel out of a pit in the county’s southeast and that work on a new tractor/computer was finishing the same day. He said drivers are filling load sheets and the department is tracking every load with spreadsheets created by staff so the county can reconcile stockpile surveys and production records.
Lawler and commissioners reported several culverts had undermined during the heavy spring rains; in several cases the road…
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