Colfax airport work continues

COLFAX—The “Flight Line Drive Realignment and Drainage Project” continues at Colfax Airport, to improve paved road accesses and drainage near the center of the airport.

The work will replace drainage pipes with smooth-walled pipes – as opposed to corrugated – adding new catch basins and “valley gutter” and improve drainage pipe evaluations.

“So the water will actually flow downhill like it’s supposed to,” said Debbie Snell, Port properties and development manager.

Valley gutter is set into concrete, to help drain water to the center of a road.

The contractor on the airport project is Motley &...