District One Councilman Bob Jarman cut a ceremonial ribbon to mark the completion of the Mount Baker Road road improvement project on Wednesday, Sept. 25.

The road upgrade project, primarily funded with more than $3.2 million in state and federal grants, added paved shoulders to the road between North Beach Road and Terrill Beach Road, improved the Terrill Beach Road intersection, and constructed a five-foot wide pedestrian trail leading from North Beach Road to the San Juan County Land Bank Stonebridge Preserve access gate.

The project also replaced culverts, improved the function of the storm drainage system with vegetated filter strips to filter the quality of runoff from the road, and included a wetland mitigation project that enhances a degraded six-acre wetland on the land bank’s Stonebridge Preserve.