King County will close part of Lake Alice Road Southeast for eight weeks this summer to replace a collapsing culvert under the roadway.

In preparation for the closure, county officials will hear from the public at an open house, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16 in the library at Fall City Elementary School, 33314 S.E. 42nd Street, Fall City.

This critical work will be done between June and the end of August, so it will not affect school buses. It is a continuation of emergency repairs that shut down the road for several weeks in 2012.

The existing 48-inch-wide culvert lies 35 feet beneath Lake Alice Road Southeast at 339th Avenue Southeast.

The county will replace it with a 16-foot-wide box culvert that can handle 100-year stream flows.

The new culvert’s floor will mimic a stream bed and allow fish passage. The county will also replace a rock wall at the site.

Lake Alice Road Southeast provides sole access to about 200 homes. A detour route on Southeast Sorenson Street in Snoqualmie Ridge, used during repairs in 2012, will be reopened during this construction.

For more information, visit the King County project website at www.kingcounty.gov/LakeAliceRoad.