Recently, Herrick Township secretary Diana Dorman encouraged members of the Wyoming County Council of Governments to adopt bonding for their dirt and gravel roads. She told supervisors that bonding is needed to protect roads from heavy trucks that would be used to haul equipment to natural gas drilling sites. She said that $600,000 in damage was caused to her road -- Cold Creek Road -- by heavy trucks hauling equipment to a nearby drilling site.
Dorman also recommended that municipalities follow these procedures:
- Establish the weight restrictions
- Pass an ordinance
- Notify the user and enforcement agency
- Post the limits
- Establish bonds
- Excess maintenance agreement
- Issue permit
- Monitor the damage
-- Josh Mrozinski
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