SEQUIM — It might be a good idea to avoid using South Sequim Avenue during much of the week of Oct. 17, where an asphalt repair project will take place on Sequim’s main artery between U.S. Highway 101 and downtown.
David Garlington, city engineer and assistant public works director, said Lakeside Industries will be removing old asphalt, repairing aggregate and repaving where utilities line work has been done in the past.
It is the first major repair work on South Sequim Avenue between the highway and Washington Street since a then-controversial widening project with landscape median was added in 1999.
Drivers can expect one-way traffic control and delays of up to 15 minutes.
Roadwork is weather-dependent.
“There’s been quite a bit of utility work on it, and the trenches have sunk some,” Garlington said, adding that 22 patches of “widely varying sizes” will be repaired.
“They’re going to remove the asphalt in the bad spots and put new asphalt in.”
Lakeside Industries of Port Angeles was the low bidder on the project at $37,675.
The next project on the city’s priority list, one backed by the City Council, is a sidewalk on North Third Avenue from Cedar to Fir streets, connected to the pedestrian walkway between the Sequim school campuses and downtown.
Another significant project planned this fall is the regrading and re-rocking of North Rhodefer Road leading from West Sequim Bay Road to Carrie Blake Park’s east side and future soccer fields.
The Rhodefer work will be a precursor to resurfacing the road when money is available to the city.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.
