It could cost up to $90,000 and take four days to repair a gaping sinkhole in state Highway 112 that is isolating Neah Bay from the rest of Clallam County.
State Department of Transportation officials were to start repair work today on the sinkhole, which grew to about 150 feet wide by 40 feet deep by Sunday morning.
The Makah tribe on Sunday made arrangements to use an old Crown Pacific logging road as an emergency bypass off the reservation.
“We basically want it to be traffic that absolutely has to go — be it for food delivery, gas, mail and any other deliveries to other commercial establishment we may have,” said Karl Gilje, Makah director of public works.
“From 6 a.m. until midnight we have to escort the vehicles through, and it’s one-way traffic.”
The logging road bypass takes about 45 minutes to traverse in one direction, he said.
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The rest of the story — including a complete report on damage and repairs in Clallam and Jefferson counties — appears in the Monday Peninsula Daily News.
