DISCOVERY BAY – The contractor building a $2.8 million Beckett Point community septic system and drainfield expects to finish the project by the end of November.
The project was delayed for three months, beginning in June, after Native American remains and artifacts were uncovered.
“It’s gonna get done,” Jim Parker, PUD general manager, assured Beckett Point residents.
Gig Harbor-based Pape & Sons Construction is racing to wrap up work before winter’s high tides and high water flood parts of the work site of the Jefferson County Public Utility District-contracted project.
The state Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation had stopped the shoreline portion of the project in early June, pending the outcome of an archaeological study.
The PUD was allowed to continue work on the upland drainfield portion of the project.
Work was resumed on the lower portion more than two weeks ago, after the state archaeological office gave the go-ahead.
