MARQUETTE, MI-- Marquette officials have released details of a proposed trucking agreement between the City and Eagle Mine owner Lundin Mining Corp.
Under the agreement the City will let trucks use County Road 550 to Wright Street, then from Wright at Sugarloaf Avenue to the western city border. The route will be available to trucks 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In exchange, the mine will pay the city a $500,000 maintenance fee each year and fund a vehicle and pedestrian safety improvement program with $200,000 a year.
The agreement is scheduled to start on September 1. Maintenance and safety fees would be paid for eight years from the beginning of the contract.
The Marquette City Commission is scheduled to consider the proposed agreement at its May 12 meeting. It released the plan so the public could review it before Monday.
To see the plan, click here.
