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Montezuma County road staff propose raising road-breach fee to encourage boring over pavement cuts
Summary
Road department staff proposed increasing the county's road-breach fee for asphalt cuts to $3,000 to push contractors toward boring, citing preservation goals and comparisons with neighboring counties.
Montezuma County road staff proposed raising the county's fee for breaching asphalt from the current level to $3,000 to encourage contractors and utilities to bore under roads rather than cut them, county staff said at a workshop April 7.
The proposal, presented by Rob (Road Department staff), is intended to make boring (which staff said costs roughly $2,800 with a contractor) less expensive than cutting and repairing a paved road. "Let's push them away from the road.…
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