Highway 95 Damage South of Moscow 4-2-12 (Wild Idaho Rising Tide photos)
Between April 11, 2011, and March 6, 2012, Mammoet hauled over 70 transports weighing up to 500,000 pounds on U.S. Highways 12 and 95 and Interstate 90 through northern Idaho, between the Port of Lewiston and Lolo or Lookout Pass and into western Montana. Expensively and dangerously facilitated by the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), state police, and private contractors, its risky Imperial Oil megaloads imperiled the safety and schedules of travelers, while delaying, confusing, and blocking public highway access and traffic with their 16- to 24-foot, two-lane widths and lengthy, glaring cargoes and convoys. Transport operations caused personal injury and property damage through numerous accidents and collisions with vehicles, tree branches, and power lines, as they degraded highways with washboard ruts in lane centers, and pummeled saturated road beds, crumbling shoulders, and outdated bridges [1-3]. Concurrent, colossal transportation ventures through the region, imposed by other haulers, crashed into cliffs and impeded public and private emergency services [4, 5].
As Mammoet again targets Highway 95 with the heaviest (1.6-million-pound), longest (474-foot), and widest (27-foot) tar sands megaloads ever to traverse Idaho, perhaps in February 2014, Wild Idaho Rising Tide releases these photos taken heading north like transports on the seven-mile stretch of the highway south of Moscow, Idaho, on April 2, 2012. They depict washboard grooves in the middle of lanes, rippled center lines and areas, and cracked and stripped pavement layers on Highway 95, all inflicted by Mammoet’s Imperial Oil transports between July 2011 and March 2012. Most recently – and significantly for water quality along the proposed Mammoet Coeur d’Alene lakeside megaload route – ITD authorized application of 1000 gallons of de-icing fluid of unknown chemical composition, to assist the re-start and passage of an Omega Morgan shipment hindered for weeks by weather and permit complications on the Idaho side of Lost Trail Pass [6].
[1] Highway 95 Megaload Accident (Wild Idaho Rising Tide)
[2] Moscow Megaload Collision (Wild Idaho Rising Tide)
[3] George Prentice, Mega-Load Snaps Power Line, Causing Outage Along U.S. 12 (April 12, 2011 Boise Weekly)
[4] Megaloads Hit Mega Snag, Again (February 4, 2011 KREM)
[5] Alex Sakariassen, Megaloads: The Long Night (November 10, 2011 Missoula Independent)
[6] Laura Zuckerman, Mega Mess Left at North Fork (January 24, 2014 Post Register)
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I e-mailed this to the Spokane City Council president, so he could see the damage that is being done to public roadways. This should be made available to any public officials whose communities could be adversely affected by these shipments. I sent it to Mr. Stuckart, because the shipments could be sent through the Spokane area should obstacles occur to the shipments elsewhere.