Construction on the final phase of the Pismo Beach promenade will start on Tuesday and should be finished in December.
The $1.4 million project includes the construction of a wooden boardwalk between the existing sections located at the end of Main Street and Pomeroy Avenue, and additional improvements to the pier plaza area, said Dwayne Chisam, Pismo Beachs public works director/city engineer.
SLO County beaches again score well on water quality except for Pismo
San Luis Obispo County beaches posted good scores in the end-of-summer water quality test performed by Heal the Bay.
The environmental organization based in Santa Monica said today in a news release that 95 percent of the beaches tested in the county scored A or B grades. The one F grade occurred at Pismo Beach Pier. The city has had an ongoing problem with pigeons roosting under the pier and pooping into the water below, causing bacterial contamination.
The report says an estimated 92 percent of the 447 beaches along the state's coast that were tested for bacterial pollution from Memorial Day through Labor Day appeared clean.
Correction: An earlier version of this story was unclear on when the project began. It started in March.
The latest phase of a repaving project on a nine-mile stretch of Highway 101 near Pismo Beach will commence Sunday night, said Caltrans in a news release.
The work will stretch from the Los Berros Road undercrossing to the Pismo Creek Bridge.
Elevated bacteria levels found in ocean in Pismo Beach
All three beach water sampling locations in Pismo Beach showed elevated bacteria levels this week.
Samples taken by the county Environmental Health Department showed bacteria levels that exceeded state health standards. The sampling locations are located just south of the pier, between Ocean View and Park Avenue and at Wadsworth Avenue north of the pier.
Signs were posted at these locations warning beach-goers to avoid contact with the ocean water, said Liberty Amundson, county environmental specialist. More samples were taken Wednesday and the signs will remain posted until samples come back showing bacteria levels within state standards.
$35 million communications center to be built at Camp Roberts
Construction of a $34.8 million communications center for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin this fall at Camp Roberts near Paso Robles.
The project is designed to expand and improve existing facilities at the California Army National Guard training post for satellite Army operations there.
The project will include a 43,000-square-foot communication operations center and related administrative and repair buildings, officials said.
Those improvements include removing and replacing the concrete sidewalk along the existing seawall, removing the existing stairway which was built in 1910 and replacing it, adding two showers and reconstructing one shower, and building new storm drain facilities.
The pier will remain open during construction, he said.
Of the $1.4 million construction cost, $1.1 million came from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Chisam said. The rest came from other federal and state funds, he said.
Goleta-based Cushman Contracting Corporation will complete the work.
-- Cynthia Lambert
Some of the improvements planned for the promenade, such as relocating the restrooms, arent happening now. The rendering below doesnt show the current restrooms in front of the pier, which are not moving.
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