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A road made out of rubber in Dickinson County may have started a trend.
The Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy provided grants that allow organizations to repurpose old tires.
“I would say a lot of these are solid technologies that are available but not widely known. They are currently an alternative and we are working to get them to be more known by communities and in road commissions, “said Kirsten Clemens, the Scrap Tire Coordinator for EGLE. “ So we are doing these projects to share the information and grow these types of projects so more of these types of materials are used in the state.”
May 7, 2021
IRONâMOUNTAINâ– The Dickinson County Road Commission lifted all remaining load restrictions on county roads effective at 6 a.m. today, except for Bartels Road in Breen Township, which will be lifted at 6 a.m. Saturday, and Buckler Road, Tower Road and Kates Grade Road, which will remain restricted until further notice.
For more information, contact weighmaster Al Forstrom at 906-282-5988.
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The new scaffold at the Pine Mountain ski jump is shown, illuminated at night.
IRON MOUNTAIN Gundlach Champion of Iron Mountain will be hired by Dickinson County to design an elevator for the Pine Mountain ski jump, a project that’s needed to meet standards for international competitions.
The county board voted 3-2 to accept a cost not to exceed $19,500 for preliminary design-build services.
Without an elevator, the Kiwanis Ski Club will be unable to host World Cup ski jumping as envisioned for 2023, Commissioner Joe Stevens said.
Gundlach Champion also proposes the elevator as a tourist attraction.
Chairman Henry Wender and Commissioner Ann Martin voted no, as no ski club representatives were present. Wender wants assurances the ski club can see the project through.
From the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy
MARQUETTE When the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy helped fund a project on a stretch of County Road 607 in Dickinson County the intent was to test an unusual asphalt mix that uses pieces of old rubber tires to see if it could hold up in the harsh climate of the Upper Peninsula.
The project a joint undertaking of the Dickinson County Road Commission, Michigan Technological University, and EGLE was completed in June 2019.
Three 3,300-foot sections of road were paved for comparison and testing: conventional hot mix asphalt base top layer, engineered crumb rubber hot mix asphalt base with conventional top layer, and hot mix base with engineered crumb rubber as both the base and top layers.
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