TGI Staff The bridge near the south end of Oma’o Road, scheduled to be replaced beginning later this year, is scheduled to get badly needed new wooden planks over its entire surface Wednesday and Thursday. The work will close the
TGI Staff
The bridge near the south end of Oma’o Road, scheduled to be replaced beginning later this year, is scheduled to get badly needed new wooden planks over its entire surface Wednesday and Thursday.
The work will close the bridge between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. both of those days, with the chance the work will be finished Wednesday, said Russell Sugano of the Kayai County Public Works Department.
“Please pardon the inconvenience” while a county crew with a backhoe and other equipment removes all the aging wood planks and replaces them with new Douglas fir pieces, Sugano said.
The Koloa Community Association provided input in the design and construction schedule of the new bridge, which will allow for a temporary road to be built around the construction zone so residents living on or near ‘Oma’o Road who work, play or attend school in Koloa or Po’ipu won’t have a 10-minute detour to either Koloa or Maluhia roads to get to the south shore.
Another compromise was reached that will allow school buses and emergency vehicles to violate the new bridge’s posted six-ton weight limit. The new bridge will include lava rock panels, similar to the bridge along Ho’onani Road near its intersection with Lawa’i Road.
A temporary, single-lane road will be built, with federal funds, through an adjacent pasture around the bridge for construction detours. The $1 million new-bridge project is expected to go out to bid this summer.
Additional information is available from the 241-6631.
Staff writer Paul C. Curtis can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 224) and mailto:pcurtis@pulitzer.net
