County, Letters To The Editor, Opinion

Letter: CDOT priorities don’t seem to make sense

How ironic! Rio Blanco was recently denied $9 million of impact funds for improvements to County Road 5, the Piceance Creek road that is the only all-weather public road providing access to two major natural gas refineries and the dozens of gas wells in the Piceance Basin.The last time this road had any major improvement was about 30 years ago when it was resurfaced using impact funds during oil shale development. It remains today…