SR 20 - Quiet Cove Road Vicinity to SR 20 Spur

Quarterly Project Report Update for Quarter Ending March 2005

Project Title & Location

Quiet Cove Road Vicinity to SR 20 Spur Vicinity.

SR 20 in rural Skagit County near Lake Campbell.

Project Description
This project will construct safety improvements along SR 20 by grading and widening. Left turn lanes will be constructed at Lunz/Deception Road. A new bridge will be constructed over Meadow Creek to accommodate the left turn lanes and provide fish passage.

Contractor/Consultant
Project not yet advertised or awarded

Recent Progress

 · Record of Survey is complete.
 · Coordination with various utility companies to identify relocation impacts to be included in our environmental documentation and permitting is ongoing.
 · Hydraulics design for first stage is 80% complete.
 · Cultural Resource Survey is complete.
 · Foundation report for the Meadow Creek bridge is complete and bridge design has started.

Design Construction Impacts

Retaining walls will be constructed to minimize impacts to forrested wetlands and to mitigate unstable slopes.  Construction of a  temporary alignment will be needed to accomodate bridge construction.

A Cost Risk Assessment (CRA) workshop performed in April 2004 and subsequent in depth reviews of the results have identified a new total project cost of $18.3 million, an increase of $3.8 million.  The project team is proposing to stage the project to offset the budget shortfall.  Under this proposal, design and right of way acquisition for the entire project and construction of Stage 1, defined as the 1.42 mile section from the Quiet Cove vicintiy to the North Campbell Lake Road vicinity, would be funded with the original legislative allocation.  Construction of stage 2, defined as the 1.8 mile section from the North Campbell Lake Road vicinity to the junction of the SR 20 Spur, is not funded.

Environmental Impacts / Compliance
Weltand impacts have been minimzed.  New wetlands will be built to mitigate for wetland impacts.  We will adhere to permit requirements.

Impacts to Traffic
Significant impacts will occur when construction takes place in the summer of 2007 and 2008 · There will be a public information campaign to alert the public to future traffic impacts.

Project Milestones Scheduled Attained Milestone Outlook
Environmental Documentation Complete Jan 2005 Work on the Wetland/Biology Report is continuing.  The environmental documentation to include utility impacts from relocations has delayed the environmental documentation completion date.
Right of Way Certfied Oct 2006 Recently, the Samish Indian Nation transferred property they own that is adjacent to SR 20 to trust land.  Project improvements will require the purchase of right of way from the Samish Nation.  Since this land is now in trust, approval is required from the Bureau of Indian Affairs before the land can be acquired.  This can increase the right of way acquisition time.
Contract Advertisement Nov 2006 The advertisment date may be delayed due to the aquisition of tribal trust land.
Open to Traffic Fall 2008
   
Project Cost Summary: Dollars in
millions 		Percent
of Total

Planned vs. Actual Expenditures
(Total Project Cost)
Project Expenditure Chart

Preliminary Engineering $2.16 m 14.9%
Right-of-Way $3.02 m 20.9%
Construction $9.28 m 64.2%
Funded Project Costs $14.46 m 100%

Nickel funds included in above costs

 $7.06 m 48.8%

2005 Transportation Partnership Account

  For more information, go to www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects

Dawn Yankauskas, WSDOT Project Engineer @ (425) 744-5103; or Yankadr@wsdot.wa.gov