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Article: OTHER ISSUES.(Business)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2004
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Despite warnings from the Douglas County Soil and Water Conservation District, pipeline construction crews barreled through a patch of noxious weed called wooly distaff thistle, turning a problem that was once contained to a quarter of an acre into a four-mile-long stretch. The patch now will have to be monitored and mitigated for up to 20 years, district manager Walt Gayner said.
The state Bureau of Labor and Industries is investigating allegations that the 355 workers on the project weren't paid fair wages.
The claim is the largest that the bureau has ever considered and could result in contractor MasTec Inc. of ...