‘Significant traffic impacts’ expected along Gig Harbor waterfront this week
Drivers should note potential delays near the Gig Harbor waterfront this week as a private contractor works on a sewer and water service connection for a home on Harborview Drive.
The contractor, Fox Island Excavation, posted a map of the partial lane closure area on Facebook indicating that it will extend along the stretch of Harborview Drive near Gig Harbor BoatShop and Eddon Boat Park and down onto Stinson Avenue near the Gig Harbor Yacht Club.
“Try to avoid that area if you can and please be patient as we will try and keep traffic moving as fast as possible with the space we will have,” the company wrote on Facebook last week in advance of the project.
Gig Harbor Public Works director Jeff Langhelm confirmed via email that the project is not a city project but a private project to build a single-family home at 3824 Harborview Dr. He wrote that the work likely would have “significant traffic impacts.”
“The work by a contractor this week will include placement of a sewer and water service connection from the newly constructed private residence,” Langhelm wrote. “This work will require a few days of sequenced utility installation then final re-paving of the roadway.”
He added that one alternating lane will remain open between 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. each day of the work, and no work should continue past 3:30 p.m. Crews are expected to finish installing the utilities by the end of the week, and paving the roadway a week or two after installing the utilities but before the end of May. The contractor will have the best information on its schedule, he told The News Tribune.
The News Tribune reached out to Fox Island Excavation via phone and email to ask about its work schedule but did not immediately receive a response.
