Over the summer, Kiewit kicked off construction on the Coastal 29 Project on the Olympic Peninsula.
The scope of work includes correcting 29 fish passage barriers. The barriers hinder fish from moving up or downstream. Correcting these barriers will help with salmon recovery, restore access to fish habitats and comply with the federal injunction.
The project is broken into five different bundles, with one or two bundles being built each summer. Recently, our team completed construction on Bundle 1, which consists of six different sites. With each site, we have to move traffic by detouring drivers onto existing roads or constructing a temporary road bypass around the site. Then, crews install a temporary stream bypass, remove the existing culvert and install a new culvert, which opens up water flow and allows for fish migration. Lastly, we construct a new stream habitat and finish roadway restoration.
Between Coastal 29 and two other fish passage projects, we have 56 more fish passages to correct over the next six years.
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