Fresh asphalt from Billings company may need to be ripped from Malta streets

Malta Mayor Shyla Jones reported that a concrete-provider located in Billings recently called the heads of the construction crews and engineers in charge of the City of Malta’s current water project to report that their company had been sending bad concrete to Malta work sites.

“Turns out that they did not send asphalt that meets spec and this is a fraud issue,” Mayor Jones said.

Mayor Jones stressed that the asphalt problem has nothing to do with either Helena Sand & Gravel (HS&G), the construction crew in charge of the water project, or Rocky Mummey who was hired by HS&G to lay co...