Lower Elwha Road widening detailed in open house

Traffic flows along Lower Elwha Road on the east edge of Port Angeles. Clallam County plans to widen the road between Edgewood Drive and Kacee Way in 2016. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Traffic flows along Lower Elwha Road on the east edge of Port Angeles. Clallam County plans to widen the road between Edgewood Drive and Kacee Way in 2016. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

PORT ANGELES — That narrow section of Lower Elwha Road on the western edge of Port Angeles will be widened in the summer of 2016, Clallam County public works officials said.

Officials spoke to property owners Wednesday, when about two-dozen residents attended an open house about the project at the Dry Creek Grange Hall.

“We were happy to see that many people there,” Assistant County Engineer Joe Donisi said.

The 0.8-mile stretch of undulating asphalt between Edgewood Drive and Kacee Way will be repaved and widened from 22 feet to 34 feet, making room for 6-foot shoulders on both sides.

Utilities likely will be moved underground as part of the $1.3 million project, which is funded by the state Rural Arterial Program.

The intersection of Lower Elwha Road and Kacee Way will be converted from a three-way stop to a free, sweeping turn for those traveling to the Lower Elwha Klallam tribal reservation via Stratton Road.

Donisi and others in the Clallam County Road Department shared information and answered questions from citizens who gathered around three large drawings of the preliminary design.

Like Kacee Way

Officials said the new alignment will have the same width and configuration as Kacee Way.

Kacee Way was rebuilt when it was connected to Stratton Road in 2012.

Barring delays with right-of-way acquisition, Donisi said, the three- to four-month Lower Elwha Road project should be completed by the fall of 2016.

Power lines and telephone lines likely will be moved this winter, he said.

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Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5072, or at rollikainen@peninsuladailynews.com.

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