City has a couple questions for USBR regarding B Street

The City of Grand Coulee would like a couple of questions addressed before extending their B Street closure agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. 

One end of B Street has been blocked off near the bureau’s fire station construction site since 2017, and numerous delays in that construction project have kept the road closed. 

B Street connects to SR-155 through the bureau-owned Industrial Road, with the area between B Street and SR-155 being closed off. 

At their May 18 council meeting, the council discussed wanting emergency access through the closed off area, and for that topic to be addressed by the bureau as well as to know if the bureau intends to open the route back up once construction is complete. 

Grand Coulee Fire Department Chief Ryan Fish agreed that the emergency access issue needed to be addressed. 

No one from the bureau attended the meeting, although City Clerk Lorna Pearce said that someone from the bureau was going to try to attend.