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Page A-2 — Shelton-Mason Journal Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020
Sanderson Field runway looking”
ravages. "
gordon@masoncounty. com
More than 7 miles of cracks were
filled and 10,000 tons of asphalt
spread to make the main runway at
Sanderson Air Field in Shelton “glossy
smooth.”
Crews on Monday completed laying
asphalt on the runway that measures
5,005 feet long and 100 feet wide, and
on the taxiways. New stripes are being
painted this week.
“It’s glossy smooth,” said Brandon
Palmer, the Port of Shelton’s engineer-
ing manager. “It’s going to be great."
Palmer is also a pilot. “You don’t
want to land on a rollercoaster and
then a dip and then another dip,” he
said.
It’s been 27 years since the last
repaving. A slurry seal was applied
in 2013, “to buy it some more years,”
Palmer said.
“It was definitely ready for it,” he
said. .
“This project is huge for the Port
of Shelton,” Wendy Smith, the port’s
executive director, wrote in an email
to the Shelton-Mason County Journal.
“It is over $3.5 million of spending for
the safety and integrity of our airport
users. Large credit goes to years of
preplanning for this to get Sanderson
Field into the funding pool for projects
larger than our every year funding of
$150,000. It feels really good to get
this project completed, especially that
we were able to employ so many indi—
viduals from engineers to surveyors
to truck drivers during a world pan-i
demic.”
The Federal Aviation Administra-
tion paid 90% of the bill, the state De-
partment of Transportation’s aviation
Two pavers’ advance side-by-side Friday, compacting asphalt heated at
more than 300.degrees, on the main
runway at Sanderson Air Field in Shelton. Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
division 5%, Palmer said.
Last fall, the runway’s edge lights
were replaced and the signs upgraded.
The project was then —“winterized” and
was resumed in late spring. Pilots
have been using a parallel temporary
runway, which measures 2,363 feet
long and 50 feet wide.
The job entailed more than 15 sub-
contractors, with 24 trucks and trail-
ers involved at the same time. The
staging area is on the former site of
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Crews ground down the old runway
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tion on the west end 'of the runway,
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the project. Active Construction Inc. of
Tacoma is the major contractor, and
Lakeside Industries, Inc. is the paver.
The Port of Shelton has no large
capital projects on the agenda for 2021,
Palmer said. In 2022, the Port plans to
redo the second runway for about $3.5
million. The airport will remain fully
operational during that time, he said.
“Actually, it’s similar to this proj-
ect,” Palmer said.
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