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Ordinance regarding the temporary installation of stop signs on Unick Road at Elder Road to facilitate the
Slater Road /Jordan Creek Fish Passage Project construction detour.
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To comply with RCW 36.32.120 and 46.61.200, it is found necessary and expedient to install temporary traffic
control signs on Unick Road at Elder Road to facilitate the Slater Road /Jordan Creek Fish Passage Project
construction detour.
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4/4/2017: Adopted 6 -0, Weimer absent, Ord 2017 -015
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PROPOSED BY: Public Works - _EMineerin
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ORDINANCE NO. 2017 -015
REGARDING TEMPORARY INSTALLATION OF STOP SIGNS
ON UNICK ROAD AT ELDER ROAD DURING CONSTRUCTION OF THE SLATER
ROAD /JORDAN CREEK FISH PASSAGE PROJECT
WHEREAS, in compliance with RCW 36.32.120 and 46.61.200, it is found
necessary and expedient to install traffic control signs on certain County Roads; and
WHEREAS, the existing steel arch culvert under Slater Road at Jordan Creek is
failing and is considered a barrier to fish passage; and
WHEREAS, Public Works presented an alternative analysis report to Council in
February of 2016 recommending replacing the failing culvert with a full span bridge with
a full closure of Slater Road during construction; and
WHEREAS, design, permitting and real estate work on the project is now
complete and construction of this project is expected to start in the spring of 2017 with
completion anticipated in late 2017 or early 2018; and
WHEREAS, during construction of this project Slater Road will be closed at the
project site and local traffic will be detoured to Elder Road, Unick Road and Lake Terrell
Road; and
WHEREAS, Public Works proposes installing temporary stop signs on Unick
Road at Elder Road to improve the safety of this intersection during use of this detour;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that
temporary stop signs be installed on Unick Road at Elder Road this spring upon the
start of project construction;
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BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that upon completion of the project the temporary
stop signs will be removed;
AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Engineer is hereby directed
to install the appropriate signs and that the Whatcom County Sheriff be notified by
providing him with a copy of this ordinance.
ADOPTED this 4th day Of April
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