SOLEDAD — Bryant Canyon Channel improvements are making progress with phase two in the works.
“We’ve been making a lot of progress with the Bryant Canyon improvements,” said Shanna Murray of the Monterey County Water Resources Agency.
The Bryant Canyon Channel project is located next to the cemetery and is necessary to ensure that the new Summerfield Phase II housing project can move forward. The location also has the potential to serve as a satellite campus for Hartnell College.
“Construction started this year and it’s done in two phases,” Murray said. “The first phase are the improvements downstream of Bryant Canyon Road all the way to the Metz Road Culvert. It includes a new culvert under Bryant Canyon Road to protect people from the hundred year flood event and one gabion structure.”
The gabion structure are drop structures and the project will use rock slope structures on the bends of the channel. Phase two began in August and will run until October. The second phase will include improvements upstream of the Bryant Canyon Channel culvert and will have eight gabion structures as well as rock slope protection.
The construction of Bryant Canyon Channel started on June 13. Concrete was poured for the foundation for the culvert on July 12 and the gabion was started July 17.
Part of the Bryant Canyon Channel improvements will be installing a guardrail as well.
According to Murray, the Monterey County Water Resources Agency obtained all the state, federal and local permits and an easement to start work on the Bryant Canyon improvements.
