Construction crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation will intermittently stop traffic in both directions of State Route 8 in McCleary between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 31, to deliver and place bridge girders. Each closure will delay traffic up to 15 minutes.

The girder delivery is the final of four such deliveries needed in the agency’s State Route 8 Middle and East Forks Wildcat Creek fish barrier removal project. Cranes stationed in the closed lanes will lift girders from trucks briefly stopped in the travel lanes and onto a structure that will become a new bridge over the east fork of Wildcat Creek. Rain will not affect the work, however, unusually high winds could delay delivery and placement of the girders.