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124th Avenue Extension
project reaches milestones
By Heather Sturgill,
Senior Communications Specialist/PIO
It’s been another great year for the SW 124th Basalt Creek Parkway, a new 0.7-mile arterial
Avenue Extension with several important connecting SW Tonquin Road and SW 124th
milestones achieved. Avenue to Grahams Ferry Road, is the most
significant part of the project completed to
“The 124th Avenue Extension project is one of the date. The road opened in August 2017. At the
most exciting projects I’ve been able to work on,” same time, Tonquin Road closed between
said Renus Kelfkens, Project Manager, Engineering Grahams Ferry Road and 124th Avenue for
and Construction Services Division. “With two widening and WWSP pipeline installation.
new roads being built, a partnership with the Tonquin is expected to reopen in April.
Willamette Water Supply Program (WWSP)
pipeline and support from the community, “Basalt Creek Parkway is designed to expand
it’s just wonderful to go to work every day to five lanes, which will be done in the future by
and see progress being made.” developers,” said Kelfkens. “It’s not often we can
build a completely new road and incorporate so
The 124th Avenue Extension will provide a new much anticipated growth.”
connection between Sherwood, Tualatin and
Wilsonville; access to the Basalt Creek area; Grading for the 124th Avenue Extension was
and an additional connection to I-5 and Hwy completed in August 2016. Two large retaining
99W. In addition to extending 124th Avenue from walls, created by drilling long metal rods into
Tualatin-Sherwood Road to Tonquin Road, both the embankment and reinforcing it with concrete,
Grahams Ferry Road (between Tonquin and Day were completed on sections of 124th Avenue and
roads) and Tonquin Road (between 124th Avenue Tonquin Road where the road was cut through
and Grahams Ferry Road) will be widened to rocky, basalt terrain. The 20- and 30-foot walls
include center turn lanes and wide shoulders. were reinforced with steel and covered with
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