NEAH BAY — Workers on Monday started building a one-lane gravel road around a 150-foot wide sinkhole that severed state Highway 112 at the entrance to the Makah reservation on Saturday night.
State Department of Transportation officials said it will take about three days to open the temporary road.
Transportation workers will maintain the road throughout the winter and open a permanent, two-lane road when the weather dries in the summer, said Don Clotfelter, maintenance superintendent for Transportation in Port Angeles.
“The ground is very saturated and the temporary, one-lane gravel road will allow us to reopen a highway to the Makah Reservation faster,” he said.
It could cost $100,000 to build a road around the 40-foot-deep sinkhole, according to Monty Mills, Transportation’s maintenance technician in Port Angeles.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News.