Drilling and Blasting in Environmentally Sensitive Areas

"Ajax Contracting was awarded the project to drill, blast and crush 100,000 tons of quarryrock for the Forest Service In Elk City, Idaho, during the summer of 1992. This projecttakes place in an area where environmental groups opposing any development in NorthernIdaho forced the Forest Service to look for road rock In any place they could get it. Theresult was that a quarry could not be developed. It was decided that rock would be takenfrom a road cut (under the guise of straightening the road) on the main artery of Elk City,Idaho making the drilling and blasting a very sensitive issue to the local truckers haulingtrees and lumber to and from a mill."