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By Rebecca Dopp
Times-News Correspondent

The bids are in for the Uintah, Wasatch, Cache National Forest stimulus funding projects and Juab County road supervisor Bob Garrett presented the bid summary to county commissioners at Monday’s meeting.
He informed the commissioners that work had started Monday morning with the pulverizing of the campground and hauling of gravel. He said the culverts had been delivered. They were in the process of doing the Nebo Loop road, Ponderosa and Bear Canyon Campgrounds, and Bear Canyon Road.
LuWayne Walker, who was participating by conference call, asked about leaving the Ponderosa Campground open for the Memorial Day weekend. Garrett said they were going to be out Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. There will only be oil and a little bit of gravel on the road so the campground could be used. Bear Canyon will be open.
“Hopefully we’ll get it all pulverized this week,” Garrett said. “Then we have to put 6” of gravel on it and prep it for 3” of asphalt.”
A-T Asphalt Paving, Inc. was the successful bidder on pulverizing and estimate 212,350 sq. feet of asphalt at $.09 cents per square foot. The bid also included $1,200 mobilization cost. The total bid was $20,311.50.
Dutson Supply Company was awarded a gravel hauling project from the Mona Pit to the forks of Salt Creek Canyon for 8,000 plus tons. Total bid was $31,200.
Contech Construction Products was awarded the galvanized pipe products supply bid for $15,365.77.
Greene Company was awarded a contract for asphalt cutting where the culverts were going in. Total bid was $600.
Geneva Rock Products, Inc. was awarded the bid on supplying and laying hot mix asphalt for a total bid of $224,728.
Garrett said there were only two bids on the asphalt because there are only two suppliers. Two projects had seven bids and the rest had three or more. These figures will come from the stimulus money and the county’s contribution will be in-kind labor and equipment.
He said that although there was a hiring freeze within the county, in order to get the projects done within the time frame, he would need to hire part-time help. Some of the work could be contracted out, but to make it work there would need to be part-time help. He said they needed CDL drivers to haul the materials around.
The commission accepted the bid awards for the projects.