PORT ANGELES — Contractor crews working for the state Department of Transportation will begin resurfacing portions along more than 40 miles of state Highway 112 on Monday.

Work will continue through September on the highway that also has been designated a detour route for an extensive U.S. Highway 101 project scheduled to begin mid-July.

It is part of a $961,000 repair and maintenance project, Transportation spokesman Doug Adamson said last week.

Drivers can expect speed limits reduced to 35 mph in work zones and single-lane closures during daylight hours.

The work areas for the state Highway 112 project are between milepost 20.56 north of state Highway 113 and milepost 61.08 near U.S. Highway 101 west of Port Angeles.

“We have an asphalt program that comes in and repairs the roadway when it needs to be done to be more cost-effective,” Adamson said.

The work just west of Port Angeles will begin Monday, he said.

One-way alternating traffic will be imposed in work areas with a pilot car.

Delays “should not be long,” Adamson said. “Our delays are not expected to be substantial.

“It’s important to remember we are fixing, we are taking care of, the roads.”

During the project, crews will put down chip seal – crushed rock with liquid asphalt – along various sections of the highway.

The work will coincide with some of the scheduled $27.5 million project to rehabilitate 12 miles of U.S. Highway 101 around Lake Crescent, which begins in mid-July and lasts through mid-November.

The project will include 4 miles of East Beach Road.

Drivers will experience up to four-hour delays through mid-November.

Four-hour delays will begin after Labor Day on the western half of U.S. Highway 101 (west from Barnes Point).

Unhindered access to Forks, Clallam Bay and other West End destinations will be accessible by marked detours on state highways 112 and 113.

Construction and traffic updates are available at http://tinyurl.com/PDN-TrafficUpdates.