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Are you concerned about the deteriorating condition of our roads due to oil and gas drilling? Are you concerned about your surface owners rights? There will be a meeting on April 5 at 1 p.m. in Wileyville at the auction house. Come and address your concerns to your legislators, representative from the Governor’s office, local officials, DOH officials, and gas and oil representatives. Link to newspaper article.
Truck Safety Presentation. Click on link to see thumbnails. Click on thumbnail to see larger picture.
Name Change. From Silver Hill Citizens Action Group to Wetzel County Action Group (WCAG).
Guardrail on CR 3 milepost 6.03 and other financial matters link.
Board of Education Meeting on January 7, 2008 link.
Letter to Governor link. Governor Manchin's reply. Senator Byrd's reply.
Meeting with County Commissioners. Link to Wetzel Chronicle article.
Road Conditions Letter link.
County Commission and Roads. Link.
DOH Presentation given by Robert Whipp on December 13th, 2007 link.
The group has not formally produced a list of objectives. The following link is to a blog page that discusses the objectives being considered.
Gas tax. The state’s 27-cent-per-gallon tax on diesel and gasoline generates about $320 million annually. That amount is expected to drop to $260 million a year by 2009.
Highway injuries link.
Highway statistics by state
link.
- Mid-Atlantic Urban percent
link.
I-68 funding article link.
Mineral rights link.
Oil vulnerability rankings link.
| Road cost per mile link. | |
| - New Construction, Undivided, 2 Lane Rural Road with 5' Shoulders | $2,654,542.74 |
| - Mill and Resurface, 2 Lane Rural Road with 5' Paved Shoulders | $469,756.98 |
Road treatment type links.
Royalty HB 216 link.
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection link.
West Virginia Department of Transportation
link.
- Average Daily Traffic (ADT), 300 at New Dale, 12,500 on Route 2
link.
- 2006 Budget and Expenditures
link.
- Districts link.
- Weight limits, 65,000 LBS,
link
- Statistics link.
West Virginia has the nation’s sixth-largest state-maintained road system. The state foots the bill for 92 percent of its 37,370 miles of roadway, while the average for other states is 19 percent. West Virginia also cannot spend federal dollars on three-fourths of its roads. Federal matching funds account for 44 percent of the State Road Fund.