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<br /> ~,..i z <br /> NEWS RELEASE <br /> October 2 1988 <br /> CONTACT: Bob Terrel, Construction Supervisor, 687-5382 <br /> Sandra Gleason, Public Information, 687-5523 <br /> FOR IMMED ATE RELEASE <br /> I <br /> I <br /> SIX BLOCKS OF 13TH AVENUE TO BE PAVED SATURDAY <br /> i <br /> On S turday, October 29, Wildish Corvallis Construction Co. will pave <br /> Thirteent Avenue between Willamette and Patterson streets. Crews will begin <br /> work at 8 a.m. and expect to have the paving completed by 4:30 p.m. <br /> ' One ane of traffic on Thirteenth will be open throughout the paving <br /> process; owever, detours are planned for south bound traffic on Pearl <br /> beginning at Eleventh Avenue and north bound traffic on Oak and High Streets <br /> beginning at Fourteenth Avenue. All detours will be signed. Motorists are <br /> asked to void the area on Saturday, if possible. <br /> All lean up work, installation of parking meters, concrete and sidewalk <br /> finishing, and lane striping will be completed by mid-November. <br /> Accar ing to Bob Terrel, Public Works construction supervisor, <br /> reconstruc ion of the final two blocks of Thirteeth between Patterson and <br /> Alder will begin next spring and should take about two months to complete. <br /> "Since we an't pave during wet weather, we did not want to begin the last <br /> two-block ection without being sure we could pave it this year," explained <br /> ! Terrel. <br /> Terre said the reconstruction project has taken longer than anticipated <br /> because th utility installation and location records for the road are old <br /> more <br /> <br />