Seventeen miles of outlying roads will get a coat of chip-seal surface in the next six weeks, as the regional maintenance crew from the state Department of Transportation brings its crew to Haines for the first time in five years.
The chip-coat crew rotates around Southeast and worked at Prince of Wales Island and Ketchikan last summer.
Gary Franzen, chief of maintenance and operations for DOT in Southeast, said the work will involve filling holes…
