PORT ANGELES — The old entrance road at William R. Fairchild International Airport will be removed later this summer as part of a 14-year-old federal safety project.
The project also will include two new aircraft taxi lanes for proposed hangars.
Port of Port Angeles commissioners awarded the airport project, including a base bid and three options, to Jordan Excavating of Port Angeles for $452,644.
The base bid includes building the runway safety area, removing the old terminal road and moving a security fence.
The three options include building an emergency vehicle access road to the west, installing an automated security gate and building two taxi lanes.
Aug. 1 construction start
The project is scheduled to start Aug. 1 and be completed by Sept. 30.
The Federal Aviation Administration will pay for 95 percent of the project cost.
The Port will pay the other 5 percent, or $29,176.
“This has been a long project,” Airport Manager Jeff Robb told the Port commissioners at their Monday meeting.
Robb said the airport’s west end is safety-compliant, but the east end still has the old access road, which remains in the airport’s runway safety area.
The improvement process has included realigning the intersection at Lauridsen Boulevard, Edgewood Drive and Airport Road, installing stormwater controls and building a new airport terminal access road, Robb said.
Now the old access road, which had closely followed the eastern perimeter of the airfield, will be removed.
