How to resolve AdBlock issue? CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A local highway rehabilitation project is about to get rolling again thanks to the selection of a new contractor.
Caltrans said Thursday that the Highway 53 rehabilitation project will resume on Monday, Aug. 13.
The project includes installing a traffic signal at Olympic Drive, widening shoulders, adding and lengthening turn pockets at intersections, and repaving more than four miles of Highway 53 from just north of 40th Avenue to Highway 20, Caltrans reported.
The project has been hold for almost eight months, Caltrans spokesman Phil Frisbie told Lake County News.
Frisbie said the original contractor was Sierra Equipment Rental of Glenn.
The company began to experience problems last fall and then defaulted, Frisbie said.
He said when the company defaulted on its contract, its bonding company took over and worked with Caltrans to rebid the project.
The contract was recently awarded to Teichert Construction of Davis, according to Frisbie.
Frisbie said the late start this summer will push the project’s completion out to next fall.
“We are, however, working with the contractor to try to finish the new turn lanes at Olympic Drive as soon as possible so we can activate the new traffic signal,” Frisbie said.
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