County field tests surface product on Estes Road, Beeson Cut-Off

PULLMAN – Last week on Estes Road and Beeson Cut-Off Road, commuter routes from Viola to Pullman, County Public Works crews field-tested a new road surface product.

The not-yet-available item comes from Enviro-Tech of Greeley, Colo., with a distributor in Post Falls.

A Public Works crew last Tuesday and Wednesday, July 28-29, watered a half-mile stretch of the two roads, and once saturated, tore up the surface with a road grader and added the not-yet-named treatment material, mixing it into the road material, laying it down and compacting.

Brandon Kruger, operations manager for Whitman County’...