MISSOULA — The Missoula County Commissioners sent a letter on Thursday, Dec. 4, requesting more information about a proposed gravel pit in the lower Blackfoot Valley.

They also directed county staff to place a hold on issuing a land use and zoning compliance permit requested for the project, which proposes putting an open-cut gravel mine off Montana Highway 200, about halfway between Johnsrud Fishing Access Site and Bonner near the Blackfoot River.

The letter was sent to Kirk Mace of RCI Properties Inc. , who submitted a land use and zoning compliance permit application to the county earlier this fall. According to that paperwork, the developer is interested in using the plot for “open-cut, sand and gravel operations to include use of a portable crusher and a portable hot mix asphalt p

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