Boyer lot slated for sealing

Whitman County has agreed to do chip sealing and crack sealing on the Boyer Park parking lot while they are chip sealing Lower Granite Road over this coming summer.

It has been 20 years since the parking lot has been sealed. The county tends to do chip sealing on the roads every six to eight years.

The county will charge the Port of Whitman for materials and employees' time to do the sealing, but not for mobilization because the county machinery will already be in the neighborhood.

"This probably is the time to do it," said Joe Poiré, the ports Executive Director, "The county will do a really good job."

The county's sealing offer doesn't include sweeping the lot, or striping. Kara Riebold, the port's Chief Operating Officer, told the port board last week that she plans to ask either the City of Colfax or the City of Pullman for the use of a sweeper which sucks up the gravel as it sweeps.

Port Commissioner Kristine Meyer felt it was better to do it now, rather than to wait.

The county will be working on Lower Granite Road during June and July this summer. Riebold hopes they will do the work at Boyer early on so that it might be finished and looking good for the port's Family Festival event.