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December 6, 2007

Contractors hit hard by shrinking aggregate supply

  • Aggregate costs in some areas of Western Washington have doubled over the past four years.
    • By JERRY VANDERWOOD
    AGC of Washington

    ARE WE RUNNING OUT of sand and gravel? It seems absurd to think so, particularly because the mile-wide chunk of ice that carved out the Puget Sound eons ago helped provide Washington with a bounty of high-quality aggregates.

    Nevertheless, according to state geologist Ron Teissere: “We don't have enough mineral resources from permitted sites to complete all the projects that are currently on the state's books.”


     
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