STANWOOD — Repairs to I-5 from Skagit County south to Highway 532 near Stanwood are expected to begin in August.
The state Department of Transportation recently awarded the $5.3 million construction contract to Granite Construction Co. of Everett.
The project, funded by the federal economic stimulus program, should support an estimated 60 jobs through spring 2010, department spokesman Dustin Terpening said.
Repairing the pavement should reduce costly temporary repairs, provide drivers with a safer ride and ensure that the roadway lasts into the future, he said.
Broken concrete panels are scheduled to be repaired and bumps smoothed along 6 miles of southbound I-5, between the Stanwood and Camano Island exit and Starbird Road in Skagit County.
Transportation officials estimate that a daily average of 59,000 vehicles use this stretch of I-5.
For more information, go to www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/I5/sr532toStarbird.
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