The in basket: Don Brandvold wrote in March to say, “On Highway
166 in the middle of the road in front of Dockside marina I have
noticed a leak that has been there for the last 5 years.
The reason it jogged my memory was that the weather was so cold a
couple of weeks ago that the water had frozen as it ran across the
road. Water can be seen slowly running across the road there all
year around.
I was wondering if this will ever be repaired, and who needs to
repair it, the county or state?
The in basket: Don Brandvold wrote in March to say, “On Highway 166
in the middle of the road in front of Dockside marina I have
noticed a leak that has been there for the last 5 years.
The reason it jogged my memory was that the weather was so cold a
couple of weeks ago that the water had frozen as it ran across the
road. Water can be seen slowly running across the road there all
year around.
I was wondering if this will ever be repaired, and who needs to
repair it, the county or state?
The out basket: I expected this to be comparable to the water that
leaks out of an adjoining embankments and occasionally crosses the
southbound lanes in Gorst, Mile Hill Drive just uphill from the
Port Orchard roundabout and some other places.
But as I’ve looked at it over the past two months, I realized that
it’s unique, in that the water doesn’t run out onto the pavement,
it seeps up through it. The wet spot begins in the middle of the
eastbound lane.
Frank Allen, supervisor for local maintenance for state highways,
(it’s a state highway), writes, ” Heavy rainfall saturated the
hillside this past winter resulting in water pumping up through
breaks in the pavement. Water will seek out the path of least
resistance.
“The next overlay in this area we will have to install some type of
drain to relieve the pressure.
“It should dry out this summer. The only time it is a concern is
during winter and a possible freeze.”
That next overlay is planned for next year, and will repave Highway
166 from it’s intersection with Highway 16 in Gorst to Blackjack
Creek at Westbay in Port Orchard.
