Dust Control Program

Council wishes to provide a program that will deliver efficiencies and therefore costs savings to ratepayers wishing to avail themselves of the program.  It is recognized, however, that such a program must be able to be administered effectively, delivered promptly and be cost effective. 

The rural municipality will obtain a best rate cost for the purchase and application of a dust control product as soon as is practicable in the current year. The administration shall calculate the cost, average by the typical width of a constructed rural municipal road, of the product and application per linear meter. 

• Ratepayers wishing to partake in the program shall make application by May 31st of the given year to enter into the program. Applications must be made per the Dust Control Application Form.
• The dust control will be applied in 50 meters increments to the road adjacent to the applicants yard site.  Before the dust control product is applied, the rural municipality will mark the length of application and prepare the road surface in a suitable manner to receive the dust control product. 
• Ratepayers participating in the program shall be invoiced the corresponding amount to be payable by December 31st in the given year that the product is applied.  Amounts outstanding as of December 31st in the year of application shall be collected in the same manner as unpaid custom work.
• This policy does not apply to areas where the rural municipality already applies dust control of its own accord for whatever reason.
• The rural municipality will only apply dust control when there is enough interest to apply the product in full tanker loads as the cost savings are realized at these volumes.

It shall be understood by all ratepayers that, while the rural municipality will attempt to refrain from grading road surfaces that have dust controlled applied, public safety and road security shall take precedence and, as such, the rural municipality will maintain roads as deemed necessary.