LAKEPORT — Caltrans will close Highway 175 between the hours of 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. for three days beginning this Monday to facilitate emergency slipout repairs of damage caused by winter storms.
Additionally, Caltrans said that one-way traffic will be in effect 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the three-day period, June 26 through 28, and that during work hours drivers may experience 10-minute delays.
The repairs include the construction of a retaining wall at the site of the slipout damage, approximately one mile east of the Lake/Mendocino County line. Caltrans said that road-closure signs will be posted at both the Lakeport and Hopland ends.
“We think three nights is the most it will take,” said Caltrans spokesperson Ann Marie Jones. “During the hours of 9 p. m. to 5 a. m. Monday through Wednesday motorists (traveling to Hopland and beyond) will need to go around on Highway 20 to 101.”
The contractor for the project is Argonaut Construction of Santa Rosa and the estimated completion date for the entire project is August.
Jones said that Caltrans road repair crew estimates for completion time of a project are usually fairly accurate.
“But I don”t have a crystal ball,” she added. “We try to be as accurate as we can. We try to give ourselves a little buffer there, but you never really know until you get into these things what you”re going to encounter.
“We don”t like to close highways,” she said.
Contact John Lindblom at jlwordsmith@mchsi.com.
