Hayden public works outlines months-long sewer, water and road projects; council asks for public notice options

Public Works Director Alan Sartling told the Hayden City Council on March 11 that four concurrent construction programs in the city’s northwest corner will require careful coordination and phased traffic controls over the coming months.

Sartling said the city will manage five separate contracts handled by four different contractors: the Ramsey Road extension, the H6 gravity sewer (which includes water on its south half), a water project for the Hayden Lake Irrigation District, a Dakota–Ramsey lift station, and a force main tying to the treatment plant. Work began slowly during February after cold weather and snow, and schedules have changed multiple times, Sartling said.

The public works director walked council through a month-by-month schedule showing active work moving from north to south. He said a short section of Hayden Avenue near the Dakota/Ramsey intersection likely would be the most disruptive (about a quarter mile, roughly 800 feet), and that the contractor is proposing an extended closure there. ‘‘It’s about 6 weeks, it looks like, the estimated…