County project to strengthen resiliency of two roads
On May 19, the Lee County Board of County Commissioners voted to award a contract for engineering services for a project to provide additional structural hardening to make Sanibel-Captiva Road and Captiva Drive more resilient to storm surge on both sides of Blind Pass.
The county reported that the scope of the resiliency project also includes stormwater management improvements, sewer force main relocation and structural hardening by providing design, permitting and post-design services.
The project highlights its partnership with the city of Sanibel to improve a city street — Sanibel-Captiva Road — and a county street — Captiva Drive — via a unified design to better ensure connectivity on a key transportation link between the two islands.
The $874,907 engineering services contract with HighSpans Engineering is a portion of the estimated $4.8 million project, which is funded through the U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant — Disaster Recovery Program (CDBG-DR).
Construction is expected to begin in February 2028 and be completed in March 2029.
For more information about the county’s CDBG-DR projects, visit https://cdbgdr.leegov.com/.