Commissioners award contracts

Whitman County commissioners approved two bids for public works projects Monday.

For this year’s oil and grease budget, a bid of $29,115.29 was approved from Busch Distributing.

Oil and grease pertains to lubricants in county vehicles.

For a crushing project for rock from the county’s Repp Quarry and Union Center Quarry, commissioners approved a bid of $514,947 from DeAtley Crushing of Lewiston.

Public works hires out a similar job every five to six years to replenish its stockpiles of gravel, maintenance rock for chip-sealing and sand for winter roads.

Each of these materials comes from basalt out of Union Center, near Pullman, or Repp Quarry on the Endicott-St. John Road.