Work continues on several projects on State Highways including Highway 3 through Shelton, U.S. Highway 101 through the Purdy Canyon, and on Highway 106 near Twanoh Falls but other work will also impact traffic in the coming week.
The project to improve Highway 3 from U.S. Highway 101 through Shelton continues with work around the clock. Daytime work (6 AM to 7 PM) will involve constructing sidewalks and ADA ramps at intersections. Night work (7 PM to 6 AM) will be used to resurface the roadway. Expect temporary lane closures with one-way, alternating traffic, and sidewalk/shoulder closures between milepost 0 and milepost 3.65 Monday through Thursday.
Work continues to reinforce an unstable hillside adjacent to U.S. Highway 101 in Purdy Canyon. This includes complete night closure of 101 between Brockdale Road and Highway 106 from 7 PM to 6 AM daily. There is a signed detour using Brockdale Road, McReavy Road, Dalby Rad and SR-106. That detour adds 10.5 miles to a trip. During the day, 6 AM to 7 PM, 101 will be reduced to a single lane with traffic controlled by a temporary signal.
A project to install a dewatering system and a 20-foot-wide culvert on Highway 106 continues at milepost 13.5. This work will cause one-way alternating traffic controlled by flaggers daily from 7 AM to 5 PM. Work on this project will increase after Labor Day.
Utility crews continue to work on Highway 3 between Mason Lake Road (milepost 7.14) and Pickering Road (milepost 12.78). This work, installing aerial fiber optics line on existing poles, will cause one-way alternating traffic controlled by flaggers with occasional, short duration highway closures Monday through Thursday between 9 AM and 3 PM.
In Belfair, crews are relocating a gas main along Highway 3 in preparation for the upcoming widening project. This work will be cause minor traffic delays and southbound right shoulder closures daily from milepost 26.55 to milepost 26.86 between 7 AM and 5 PM
In Potlatch, crews continue to install a sewer line along U.S. Highway 101 for the Skokomish Tribe. This work is expected to wrap up this week but expect northbound right shoulder closures with occasional one-way alternating traffic for equipment and material deliveries Monday through Thursday, 8 AM to 4 PM, from milepost 334.4 to milepost 335.
In Lilliwaup, crews are placing a water line system in the right of way of U.S. Highway 101 at milepost 328. This will cause right shoulder closures from time to time daily between 7 AM and 5:30 PM.
On Highway 108, roadside mowing is scheduled on Wednesday from McCleary to U.S. Highway 101. This mobile operation will cause shoulder closures between milepost 0 and milepost 12 from 7 AM to 4 PM.
Crews are finishing up work on U.S. Higway 101 from Kamilche to Evergreen Parkway (milepost 353 to milepost 364). This work may cause occasional night right lane closures from 6:30 PM to 5 AM Monday through Thursday. This also includes work on Highway 108 from milepost 11.81 to milepost 12 but no traffic impacts are expected on this portion of the project.
Utility crews will be working on U.S. Highway 101 between Steamboat Island Road and Oyster Bay Road. Crews will seed an area disturbed by powerline work on northbound 101 at milepost 360 (Steamboat Island Road) Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 8 AM to 4:30 PM. This work will cause right lane and shoulder closures. Beginning at 8 PM Wednesday night, crews will replace a power pole near the northbound U.S. 101 exit to Steamboat Island Road (milepost 360). Flaggers will control right turns at the intersection just off 101 until 5 AM Thursday. And on Thursday night from 9 PM to 10 PM, there will be a rolling slow down both directions of 101 between Mud Bay Road and Oyster Bay Road (milepost 356 to milepost 363) as crews place an aerial communications line over 101 at Oyster Bay Road. Traffic is expected to be stopped for about 15 minutes.
And on Highway 8 in Olympia, crews will be installing “smart highway” hardware to sense traffic volumes between milepost 19 and milepost 21. This will cause single right lane closure that will extend from eastbound SR-8 to U.S. Highway 101 in the Mud Bay area.
Please slow down and drive with caution while in work zones.