Roadside mowing around Clallam County, which has been halved in the past two years, has become a year-round, cost-saving county Road Department operation, officials said Monday.
“We have been spending about 10 percent of our income on mowing grass,” county Road Engineer Don McInnes said Monday after he and Public Works Director Craig Jacobs discussed the issue with county commissioners at a work session.
The Road Department budget is proposed at $18.9 million in 2004.
In 2001, the county mowed along 9,531 miles of county roads — or made 10 passes on each road, McInnes said.
The feat was done with 10 county employees and 10 mowers.
In 2002, the county reduced roadside mowing to eight passes on each road, or 7,566 miles, McInnes said.
This year to date, the road engineer said the county has mowed 5,241 miles, averaging five passes on each road.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
