Street Work Begins

Diana Jorgenson
Portola Editor djorgenson@plumasnews.com

Portola’s city manager announced at the last city council meeting that work begins on Nevada and Commercial streets the week of Sept. 22.

The council approved the bid at a prior meeting and the street project was awarded to R&RHorn.
City Engineer Dan Bastian notified the city that the contractor expected to begin with the demolition and construction of ADA ramps and hoped to complete the concrete work by Oct. 1.

“The tentative schedule is to do the Commercial Street grinding on Nevada Street on Oct. 3,” Murphy reported. “After they do the grinding on Commercial and Nevada, they’re going to let it sit for two weeks, because they’re worried that the equipment and the grinding process will cause some water leaks. They don’t want to pave and then have the water leaks.come up through the new Pavement.”

During that two weeks, the intent is to slurry 1 West Street. Paving will begin after that, with the project completed by the third week in October.