Something has to be done soon regarding gravel truck traffic, and road deterioration in the Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne. That according to Reeve Richard Funk, who says the roads in the municipality aren't suited to support the weight of gravel trucks on a continual basis. He says the municipality is currently working on a proposal.

Glenella-Lansdowne Reeve Richard Funk"We're going to come up with an agreement over the next 30 days, and we're going to propose it to contractors and people that want to haul gravel out of our municipality. We're working on the agreement right now, as to what we're going to do."

Funk says someone needs to maintain the roads.

"In the Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne there's ridges of gravel. When we issue our gravel pit license, we'll have to come to an agreement with the contractor as to how the road's going to be maintained. Once you get, like we've had here locally, as many as 50 trucks hauling out of the pit, the municipal roads can be destroyed in an afternoon if you've got no (weight limit) rules in place. It leaves a big bill for the rate payers of the municipality to look after, so we have to come to an agreement."

Funk says the gravel pit in the area does bring in some money to the municipality, but notes with the amount of trucks coming in and out of the pits, road repair ends up costing more.

"We're not trying to deter anyone from mining and hauling gravel, but we don't want to be gathering a few dollars in taxes from the pits, but then having a lot more in expenses to fix the roads after. So far we've been fairly lucky because the main road is looked after by the Manitoba Government, but there are gravel fields off of that road and on municipal roads and those roads have to be maintained so that we don't end up with a big hole in the ground with no income from it, and ruined roads."