Yelm Highway Project Information

This week's update is courtesy of the Project Coordinator:

Miles Resources, LLC dba: Woodworth and Company (Woodworth) were awarded the project on May 18 by the Board of County Commissioners. We are in the paperwork processing phase where Woodworth is signing the contract, getting their bonds and insurance, putting together a schedule, clarifying materials to be ordered, etc.

There will be a pre-construction meeting on June 14th, with a Notice to Proceed effective June 15th. This does not mean equipment will appear and start work that day, it may take a week or more to get mobilized, set up job shacks, get material delivered, and other related start up work. Woodworth has 360 working days to do the job, and they need to coordinate with utilities. Qwest and Puget Sound Energy (PSE) in particular have some underground work to do on the west end of the project.

PSE's subcontractor, Potelco, has moved all the electric to the new poles, and Comcast is working on moving their lines over to the new poles. There is a WSDOT information line on the east end of the project that needs to also be moved over to the new poles. Once all have moved to the new poles, Potelco will come in and remove the old poles.