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Airport Road project OK’d to proceed
Jan. 4, 2022, is expected completion date
The official notice to proceed with the repavement of Chalan Tun Herman Pan Road, also known as Route 35, and Airport Road was communicated to the contractor yesterday, according to Public Works Secretary James A. Ada.
Ada congratulated Hawaiian Rock Products and its general manager, David L. Bush, in a letter last Friday on being awarded with the Chalan Tun Herman Pan Road Improvements project.
Ada said Hawaiian Rock Products has 240 calendar days to complete the road improvements based on the scope of works developed under the DPW package. He said the completion date will be on Jan. 4, 2022.
Ada told Bush that any additional work not included in the original contract scope must be approved by the DPW secretary through an authorized contract change order prior to start of the work.
“Do not rely on any other form of verbal or written approval to perform any additional work,” Ada told the manager.
The secretary said any and all expenses incurred prior to the approval of a properly executed contract change order may not be eligible for reimbursement.
When asked for comments about the notice to proceed, lawyer Robert T. Torres, on behalf of the Torres family, said yesterday that Airport Road (Chalan Tun Herman Pan Road) will be paved and that for the residents and the community that is a good start. Torres said they commend the Torres-Palacios administration for this project.
However, he said, they look forward to working toward the ultimate solution by DPW, which involves securing the drainage area locations, locking in the funding, and ultimately completing a properly built drainage system.
“Thereafter, we will have a completed Airport Road,” Torres said.
Torres earlier wrote to the Division of Coastal Resources Management to assert that the proposed road improvement, if completed, with its reduced drainage areas will result in significant increases in water discharge onto the Torres family property in the area, which would result in the flooding of polluted waters onto their property, erosion, and property damage.
