PORT ANGELES — Work on the First Street stormwater project will move east toward Oak Street this week.
Road Construction Northwest Inc. of Renton has partially finished installing a water filter at Valley and First streets, said Teresa Pierce, Port Angeles city spokeswoman, on Friday.
Beginning Monday, crews will work to install a new stormwater pipe under the south lane of First Street up to Oak Street.
Workers will grind the pavement on the south side of First Street and then begin laying the stormwater line.
Work hours
As the project proceeds east on First Street, work will be done in the south travel and parking lanes.
Traffic is expected to be reduced to one lane around the work.
Crews will work from about 9 a.m. to about 3:30 p.m. and from about 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and from about 6 p.m. to midnight Sundays.
Crews will take a break between about 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays to avoid heavier commuter traffic, Pierce said.
“This will be adjusted as needed,” she said.
There will be no construction work Fridays, Saturdays or during the day Sundays, Pierce said.
All businesses and sidewalks in this area will remain open during the project.
Future work
After workers install the line to Oak Street, they will install it up to Laurel Street. That work is scheduled to be done by Memorial Day (May 30).
Through June 30, the schedule calls for workers to finish paving both lanes of the road between Valley and Laurel streets, applying fog seal to the block between Laurel and Lincoln streets, adding bike lanes and adding and replacing crosswalks.
The project has a price tag of about $2.25 million, with the city contributing $225,000 for street paving and the rest coming from the National Park Service.
The park service is covering that cost because the project is part of its Elwha River restoration effort.
The First Street project is intended to remove enough stormwater from the city’s sewer system to offset the contribution of sewage from the Lower Elwha Klallam reservation.
The tribe will be connected to the city’s sewers because it’s expected that its septic tanks will become unusable as the groundwater level rises as a result of the removal of the two Elwha River dams, which is to begin in September.
The park service agreed to fund a stormwater disconnect project to offset the impact on the city’s sewage overflow problem.
Construction of the sewer system is expected to be finished by June 2012.
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