REGINA – Every day many people drive on the K+S Potash Legacy Site Road coming and going from the mine and construction site. Over the past few days, Global News has received calls from a number of people about road conditions and the impact on safety.
Most of these calls revolved around complaints of relatively minor damage to vehicles like flat tires and cracked oil pans. However one caller submitted photos of a large rock they said broke through their co-worker’s windshield.
The driver of the truck was reportedly shaken, but uninjured by the rock.
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K+S is responsible for the maintenance on this road, and they acknowledge that there are issues.
In a statement, the mining company says construction is still in progress at the mine and is contributing to heavier traffic. For now, a shuttle is available to workers in Regina and Moose Jaw to limit the amount of vehicles.
Once construction is complete in a few months they anticipate the flow of traffic will be significantly reduced.
For now road repair is a part of their summer maintenance plan.
K+S is urging drivers to use caution on the Legacy Site road. There are also numerous signs warning drivers about potholes and asking them to drive to road conditions.
The Legacy Mine is in the Rural Municipality (RM) of Dufferin near Bethune, SK. RM Chief Administrative Officer Rodney Audette says the two groups meet “two or three” times a year to talk about roads in and around the mine.
The RM is responsible for all of the grid roads intersecting the Legacy Mine.
Both groups have had road issues recently, due to high amounts of moisture near the roadways.
Last year, the RM spent about $1.2 million on road repair and K+S pays about $1 million annual to the RM in taxes.
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