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Coffee Creek culvert project in Shelton on schedule
By Gordon Vlleeks
gordon@masoncounty. com
The state Department of Transpor-
tation is on schedule to connect salmon
and steelhead from Coffee Creek to
Goldsborough Creek at the intersection
of U.S. Highway 101 and Shelton Mat-
lock Road west of downtown Shelton.
“While weather always plays a role,
crews fully anticipate being complete
on time with the work by late fall,”
Doug Adamson, a WSDOT spokes-
man, wrote Tuesday in an email to the
Shelton-Mason County Journal.
The state is under a federal court
injunction to remove state-owned cul-
verts that block habitat for salmon
and steelhead. The department must
meet injunction deadlines and comply
with time-sensitive fish windows for
the water work. Construction began
last summer.
“Crews working for the Washington
State Department of Transportation
are focusing attention on the struc-
ture that will carry the realigned por-
tion of Coffee Creek under the Shelton
Matlock Road,” Adamson wrote. “Once
that phase or work is completed, work-
ers will pave the roadway above the
structure in order to remove the tem-
porary two-lane bypass road around
the Shelton Matlock Road.”
Drivers on Shelton Matlock Road
approaching U.S. 101 are using the
temporary two-lane bypass road
around the work zone.
The bypass road allows crews to
build a new stream channel and in-
stall a 96-foot-long box culvert to con-
nect the re-aligned Coffee Creek under
the Shelton Matlock Road.
The channel will link to a replicated
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Crews on Tuesday work on creating a fish passage culvert at the
intersection of U.S. Highway 101 and Shelton
Matlock Road to open up more than 13 miles of upstream habitat for salmon
and steelhead. Journal photo by
Gordon Weeks
natural streambed, which was previ-
ously built between Shelton Matlock
Road and the area approaching Golds-
borough Creek.
The existing stream channel will be
graded to simulate a natural stream-
bed and will open more than 13 miles
of potential upstream habitat for
salmon and steelhead. The habitat
improvement will be accomplished by
slowing the velocity of the stream dur-
ing times of high water, and providing
a deeper channel during times of low-
flowing water, the .department reports.
Native vegetation has. been planted
along the stream banks to restore a
natural stream environment.
The crews are also enhancing the
interchange to the southbound U.S.
101 exit to City Center/Matlock and
the West Shelton Matlock Road on—
ramp to southbound 101. Both ramps
were rebuilt into a diamond inter-
change similar to both the northbound
U.S. 101 exit and on-ramp.
“We also appreciate drivers who
pay full attention behind the wheel,”
Adamson wrote. “Driver inattention is
the number one cause of work zone ac-
cidents.”
Jury trialsin Mason County canbegin nextweek
by Adam Rudnick
adam@masoncounty.com
Jury trials in Mason
County will resume starting
next week.
The state Supreme Court
announced June that po-
tential jury trials in Mason
County Superior Court, Ma-
son County District Court
and Shelton Municipal Court
will resume July 6. All trials
in Mason County were post-
poned in March due to the
coronavirus pandemic.
“The suspension of jury
trials was needed to protect
the health of court users and
court staff, and it gave us the
opportunity to redesign our
jury processes with the in-
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wrote Daniel Goodell, Ma—
son County Superior Court
judge. “Now it is critical that
we re-start jury trials, which
are key to the fair adminis-
tration of justice.”
According to a state su—
preme court news release,
jury summons have been
sent to residents.
The three county courts
have implemented safety pre-
cautions to protect jurors and
the public, the release states.
All people entering the court—
house must wear face masks
or coverings; masks will be
available for jurors who do
not have their own.
Jurors will have other
safety protocols to follow.
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Jurors will be in areas that
will keep them at least 6 feet
apart from one another. A
limited number of jurors will
be summoned to appear at
any time to reduce the num-
ber of people inside the court-
house and courtroom.
Courts will offer multiple
ways for jurors to stay sani-
tized during proceedings.
Hand sanitizer stations have
been installed throughout the
courthouse and courtrooms.
Both will. be sanitized mul-
tiple times each day. Jurors
will be asked not to touch
any surfaces, documents or
objects that have previously
been touched without being
sanitized. Jurors will also be
able to wash their hands as
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often as they’d like.
Due to space limitations,
family members or other
residents who want to at-
tend court hearings may
have to do so from alternate
locations, according to the re-
lease.
Residents who feel they
are vulnerable to the corona-
virus and receive jury sum—
mons can request to delay or
excuse jury service.
“The supreme court has
made clear, in its most recent
administrative order, that
the time has come to resume
conducting jury trials,” wrote
George Stel, District Court
judge. _
According to a state su—
preme court order filed June
11, jury trials in Washington
are eligible to begin July 6.
Any process for summoning
jurors must “include the abil-
ity to defer jury service by
those who are atwhigher risk
from COVID-19 based on
their age or existing health
conditions, or those of a fam-
ily member,” according to the
order. .
Jury trial proceedings
must conduct ‘ proceedings
public health guidance and
communicate that informa-
tion through signs, website
and social media posts, phone
messages or other means, ac—
cording to the order.
The order also allows for
the use of remote technology
in jury selection.
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