SEKIU — Drivers can expect delays on three miles of state Highway 112 west of Kalawah Street six times between Monday and May 31.
Utility crews working for a Clallam County Public Works consultant will perform routine maintenance on at least six manholes, according to county public works.
Neither the county nor state Department of Transportation could say when the six occurrences will happen.
They will be for an hour each sometime between 8 a.m and 4 p.m.
During that time, flaggers will control one-way alternating traffic.
Drivers can get real-time traffic information on their phone with the Transportation traffic app at www.wsdot.wa.gov/Inform/mobile.htm or by viewing updates at the website http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Regions/Olympic/Construction/#clallam .
Hood Canal bridge
SHINE – Construction crews working for the state Department of Transportation continue to intermittently close the Hood Canal Bridge to vehicular traffic overnight while crews work to rehabilitate the drawspan’s mechanical components.
The twelve-night closure schedule — from 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. — began April 16 and continues through this coming Saturday with the exception of today, when closures have been canceled.
During the closures, crews will open the bridge to traffic several times to ease congestion. The traffic openings will be unscheduled and performed as workloads allow.
The closures could mean that delivery of the Peninsula Daily News, Sequim Gazette or Forks Forum will be delayed.
The newspapers are printed in Everett and brought over the bridge in the early morning hours.
Transportation awarded the $5.2 million project to Northbank Civil and Marine Inc.
Work began last summer and is expected to be finished this year.
Drivers can get information at www.wsdot.com/traffic/hoodcanal.
Herd possibly extinct
SPOKANE — A biologist said the south Selkirk mountain caribou herd may be extinct after aerial surveys found only three remaining animals.
Bart George, wildlife biologist for the Kalispel Tribe, said two aerial surveys in March found only three female caribou.
Last year there were about a dozen of the endangered animals.
The Spokesman-Review says that less than 10 years ago there were about 50 animals in the herd.
The south Selkirk caribou herd was the only herd living in both the United States and Canada. It ranged along the crest of the Selkirks near the international border, north of Spokane.
The remaining 14 or so herds are all in Canada. It’s estimated that less than 1,400 mountain caribou are left in North America. Efforts to save the animals began decades ago.
