Update for June 17, 2010

For the week of June 21st to June 25th the Contractor will be working nights to complete patching and finishing the Wall 3, Wall 6, and Wall 10/11 river side concrete faces, along with continuing culvert work and subgrade work as time permits.

The Contractor will be working this week from 4:00pm through 6:00am – Monday through Thursday night.

For those of you planning on visiting the area to camp, hunt, fish, and/or just to enjoy the area, the Salmon River Road may have changed since your last visit, so please be cautious and patient when traveling through the construction area and abide by the signs and temporary traffic signals placed for your safety, and everyone else’s safety also.

Here is a glance at the week of June 21st through June 25th showing the schedule for road openings / closures:

Construction Schedule
Construction Schedule

Construction Photo
Looking upriver at Lake Creek Bridge

Construction Photo
Road widening efforts taking place in the Wall 12 area

 

UPCOMING LOCAL EVENTS

Riggins Hot Summer Nights
July 23 & 24, 2010

Phone: 208-628-3615     Contact Email: ontheconfluence@yahoo.com
The Annual Talent Show will be held on Friday, followed by dancing. Saturday things really heat up in the Riggins City Park with food, a beer garden (both nights) and dancing under the stars to live music.

Gary Wrightman
Project Engineer
Western Federal Lands Highway Division
Federal Highway Administration

If you would like to provide a comment, click here: salmonriver@mail.wfl.fhwa.dot.gov