{"id":209713,"date":"2015-09-03T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=209713"},"modified":"2015-09-03T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:00:02","slug":"kagman-paving-nearly-done-more-funding-needed-for-full-pavement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kagman-paving-nearly-done-more-funding-needed-for-full-pavement\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagman paving nearly done; more funding needed for full pavement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawaiian Rock is close to completing the first phase of the Kagman III road paving project that broke ground five months ago.<\/p>\n

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Hawaiian Rock employees, followed by Department of Public Works employees, get ready to pave a portion of Pine Drive and a portion of Pepega Avenue near Tank Beach. (Jayson Camacho)
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According to Rep. Lorenzo Deleon Guerrero (Ind-Saipan), Hawaiian Rock only paved a portion of the Pine Drive area, near Tank Beach, leading to Pepega Avenue, eventually intersecting with Chopak Drive.<\/p>\n

Chopak Drive has already been fully paved, including Mangga Street and Katbun Road in San Vicente as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason why they are paving only a portion of Pine Drive is because the intersection of Pine Drive and a portion of Pepega Avenue leads to an intersection with Chopak Drive that eventually reaches the main highway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This is part of change order 1. One other part of the change order will pave a portion of Pine Drive that connects to Chopak Drive and intersects with Forbidden Island Road. The change order totals $58,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore funding is required, however. We still need to secure funding for additional paving of Pine Drive. We will continue to do that and use previous appropriations from the $600,000 that we got from the 18th CNMI Legislature,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The funding for the road-paving projects was made possible after Gov. Eloy S. Inos signed a local law in July 2014 appropriating more than $2.17 million in bond funds for Saipan projects. Of the $2.17 million, $600,000 went to the Precinct 5 road-paving project.<\/p>\n

Aside from the road paving, a problem with Chopak Drive has occurred where the road heads downhill and runoff carries large rocks and gravel into the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to address that. We have a change order for that and it is the continuation of the paving project that we will be identifying to rectify the runoff,\u201d said Deleon Guerrero.<\/p>\n

As for other Precinct 5 projects, Kannat Tabla might see some paving being done soon, if the U.S Department of Transportation\u2019s Federal Highway Administration\u2019s Hawaii Federal-Aid Division provides funding for the Kannat Tabla Drive.<\/p>\n

Deleon Guerrero sent a letter to Hawaii Federal-Aid Division under DOT, requesting funding for the asphalt paving and drainage construction of Kannat Tabla Drive.<\/p>\n

Mayela Sosa, division administrator, replied, saying that Kannat Tabla Drive is not a route and not a federal-aid highway route and the CNMI Department of Public Works must designate the highway as such before federal funding could be made available.<\/p>\n

\u201cDPW has the procedure and guidelines to request road classification to federal highway road system. This way we can have funding available for that,\u201d Deleon Guerrero said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hawaiian Rock is close to completing the first phase of the Kagman III road paving…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":209715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2756,152,6835,1662],"class_list":["post-209713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chopak-drive","tag-deleon-guerrero","tag-kannat-tabla-drive","tag-pine-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}